Tana French quotes

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different. (Tana French)
I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost. View quote
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We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I: As I am so will you be... View quote
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I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself. View quote
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since. View quote
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I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever. View quote
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down. View quote
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all. View quote
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There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood. View quote
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But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons. View quote
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We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to. (Tana French)
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. View quote
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I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. View quote
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What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. View quote
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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. View quote
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My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. View quote
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Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong. View quote
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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. View quote
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Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK. View quote
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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. View quote
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Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it. (Tana French)
For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine. View quote
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Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it. View quote
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