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Tana French

"The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore."

-- Tana French

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“I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up.”
“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”
“There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.”
“Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.”
“The weird thing is I feel like I'm shedding skin so fast and I'm growing and I'm becoming a new person so quickly at a rate that I'm comfortable with, yet it seems faster and more steady than an other time in my life except 16, 17, 18. I just have to sit down and listen to the ideas I'm having. And I'm not worried.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.”

Source : John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.63
“I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.”
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.129, Penguin

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