Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people. — Tana French Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't. — Tana French Copy Share Image
Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you… — Tana French Copy Share Image
People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I've always seen places as being very deeply connected to the experience that people have in those places. I think that probably… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work… — Tana French Copy Share Image
When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't… — Tana French Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall… — Tana French Copy Share Image
...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have… — Tana French Copy Share Image
But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub… — Tana French Copy Share Image
It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange… — Tana French Copy Share
“I remember this country back when I was growing up. We went to church, we ate family suppers around the table, and it would… — Tana French Copy Share
“That house shimmered in my mind like some fairy fort that appeared for one day in a lifetime, tantalizing and charged, with those four… — Tana French Copy Share
“It would take a while to occur to him that my rules had sweet fuck-all in common with his.” — Tana French Copy Share
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day. — Tana French Copy Share
“…out here in the real world, my man, you would be amazed how seldom murder has to break into people’s lives. Ninety-nine times out… — Tana French Copy Share
“Before I could get my bearings he was on top of me and shoving my face down into the dirt. He was bigger and… — Tana French Copy Share
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember,… — Tana French Copy Share
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I… — Tana French Copy Share
“For ten years Dublin’s been changing faster than our minds can handle. The economic boom has given us too many people with helicopters and… — Tana French Copy Share
When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to. — Tana French Copy Share
“Stephen shrugged. “Yeah. Well. I said I would.” “Ah. Are we having issues?” “This feels sleazy.” “I promise I’ll respect you in the morning.” — Tana French Copy Share
“She hears all the voices from when she was little, soothing, strengthening: Don’t be scared, not of monsters, not of witches, not of big… — Tana French Copy Share
“Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass.” — Tana French Copy Share
