"Broken Harbor" Tana French

"Nights last longer, when you're outside on your own.  You get to thinking strange things.  I could see other lights, in other houses across the estate...I started thinking about all the other people living there.  All those different lives.  Even if they were just cooking dinner, one guy could be making his kid's favorite to cheer her up after a bad day at school, some couple could be celebrating finding out she was pregnant...Every one of them, making dinner out there, every one of them was thinking something all their own.  Loving someone all their own.  Every time I was up there, it hit me harder.  That kind of life:  it's beautiful, after all."