We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.
Tana FrenchNow death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.
Tana FrenchMy memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...
Tana FrenchHer forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.
Tana FrenchWhen we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.
Tana French