“People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?”

—  Tana French, book Broken Harbour

Source: Broken Harbour

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Irish writer and actor 1973

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