--- title: "3 Cause and effect Quotes By Tana French" description: "3 Cause and effect quotes by Tana French. Plus more from Tana French and more Cause and effect sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/tana-french-1016_cause-and-effect_in-these-rooms-the-world-s-vast-hissing_178023.jpg" --- > [“In these rooms, the world’s vast hissing tangle of shadows burns away, all its treacherous grays are honed to the stark purity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/in-these-rooms-the-world-s-vast-hissing-tangle-of-shadows-burns-away/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/tana-french-1016_cause-and-effect_in-these-rooms-the-world-s-vast-hissing_178023.jpg) > [“...the truth is that every murder case is, if not simple, capable of simplicity, and that this is not only necessary but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/the-truth-is-that-every-murder-case-is-if-not-simple-capable-of/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f0/tana-french-1016_cause-and-effect_the-truth-is-that-every-murder-case-is-i_460834.png) > [“Like I told Richie, cause and effect isn't a luxury. Take it away and we're left paralyzed, clinging to some tiny raft…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/like-i-told-richie-cause-and-effect-isn-t-a-luxury-take-it-away-and/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd1/tana-french-1016_cause_like-i-told-richie-cause-and-effect-isn_1466023.png) ## Other authors on Cause and effect - [Dada Bhagwan 94 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cause-and-effect/dada-bhagwan/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cause-and-effect/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-hume-27582.jpg) David Hume 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cause-and-effect/david-hume/) ## More by Tana French > [“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/the-solitude-was-intoxicating-on-my-first-night-there-i-lay-on-my/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“I remember this country back when I was growing up. We went to church, we ate family suppers around the table, and it would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-remember-this-country-back-when-i-was-growing-up-we-went-to-church/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“That house shimmered in my mind like some fairy fort that appeared for one day in a lifetime, tantalizing and charged, with those four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/that-house-shimmered-in-my-mind-like-some-fairy-fort-that-appeared/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“It would take a while to occur to him that my rules had sweet fuck-all in common with his.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/it-would-take-a-while-to-occur-to-him-that-my-rules-had-sweet-fuck/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-love-writing-i-feel-ridiculously-lucky-that-this-is-what-i-get-to/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“…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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/out-here-in-the-real-world-my-man-you-would-be-amazed-how-seldom/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“Before I could get my bearings he was on top of me and shoving my face down into the dirt. He was bigger and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/before-i-could-get-my-bearings-he-was-on-top-of-me-and-shoving-my/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/we-think-of-mortality-so-little-these-days-i-thought-of-the-stern/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-read-a-lot-i-always-have-but-in-those-two-years-i-gorged-myself-on/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/for-ten-years-dublin-s-been-changing-faster-than-our-minds-can-handle/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/when-we-can-t-see-a-pattern-we-fit-pieces-together-until-one-takes/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/stephen-shrugged-yeah-well-i-said-i-would-ah-are-we-having-issues/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/she-hears-all-the-voices-from-when-she-was-little-soothing/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/our-relationship-with-truth-is-fundamental-but-cracked-refracting/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/my-night-stand-is-permanently-jammed-with-books-i-want-to-read/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cause-and-effect/tana-french/#itemlist", "name": "3 Cause and effect Quotes By Tana French", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In these rooms, the world’s vast hissing tangle of shadows burns away, all its treacherous grays are honed to the stark purity of a bare blade, two-edged: cause and effect, good and evil.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tana French" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/in-these-rooms-the-world-s-vast-hissing-tangle-of-shadows-burns-away/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/tana-french-1016_cause-and-effect_in-these-rooms-the-world-s-vast-hissing_178023.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/tana-french-1016_cause-and-effect_in-these-rooms-the-world-s-vast-hissing_178023.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/tana-french-1016_cause-and-effect_in-these-rooms-the-world-s-vast-hissing_178023.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In these rooms, the world’s vast hissing tangle of shadows burns away, all its treacherous grays are honed…” — Tana French", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“...the truth is that every murder case is, if not simple, capable of simplicity, and that this is not only necessary but breathtaking, that if there are miracles then this is one. 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