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.

—Tana French in The Likeness

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About Tana French

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Tana French (born 10 May 1973) is an Irish writer and theatrical actress. She is a resident of Dublin, Ireland. Her debut novel In the Woods (2007), a psychological mystery, won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best first novel. The Independent has called her "the First Lady...

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I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living—and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

—Tana French in The Likeness

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We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

—Rachel Naomi Remen

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When there’s something or someone, when there’s anything that makes you happy, you don’t let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

—William Butler Yeats

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Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

—Torquato Tasso

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The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

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