I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.
Tana FrenchWe think of mortality so little these days...
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be...
Stichwörter: death
We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.
Tana FrenchWhat I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
Tana FrenchI am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
Tana FrenchI wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack
Tana FrenchThere's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.
Tana FrenchThe front door opened smoothly to my key, the air inside stirred as I came in and it didn't feel over-intimate anymore; it felt like a slight smile and a cool brief touch on the cheek, like a welcome.
Tana FrenchMy memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind
Tana FrenchI don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.
Tana FrenchStichwörter: success failure positive-mindset broken-harbor
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