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Tana French Quotes: When 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
         

When 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


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Some 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.



I 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

I 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



Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.



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A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.



Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?



I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.



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.

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.



The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.



I 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.

I 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.



I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.





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No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.



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Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.



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This page presents the quote "When 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". Author of this quote is Tana French. This quote is about time, and love, people, too much, sometimes,.