Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you.
Tana FrenchMots clés broken-harbor
There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.
Tana FrenchBeing easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.
Tana FrenchOur entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all that spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.
Tana FrenchSome people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.
Tana FrenchSarte was right, Hell is other people
Tana FrenchWhen you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them
Tana FrenchAll my signposts had gone up in one blinding, dizzying explosion [...] none of the scenery looked familiar anymore.
Tana FrenchMots clés faithful-place
One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.
Tana FrenchMots clés faithful-place
It stunned me. I had never said it before. I knew that I would never say it again, not really; that you only get one shot at in a lifetime. I got mine out of nowhere on a misty autumn evening, under a street lamp shining yellow streaks on the wet pavement, with Rosie's strong pliable fingers woven through mine.
Tana FrenchMots clés faithful-place
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