I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced… — 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
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
One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat… — Tana French Copy Share Image
For me, a relationship with a place is very fundamental. When you're moving - when you're leaving your life and the place… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I told people I was taking a gap year, but the truth was that I wanted to do nothing, absolutely nothing, for… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I loved Rosie’s mind. If I could have got inside there, I would happily have spent the rest of my life wandering… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes. — Tana French Copy Share Image
You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Donna Tartt blows me away - that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The summer came to life. It burst from gray to fierce blue and gold in the blink of an eye; the air… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I think it was only in that moment I believed she was dead, this girl I had never seen alive. I'll never… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Pubs have always been the heart of Irish social life, but when the smoking ban came in, a lot of people moved… — 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
“If you’ve ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe you’ve got some idea… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“What I wanted was someone I belonged with, beyond any doubt or denial; someone where every glance was a guarantee, solid proof… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Various therapists and psychiatrists have diagnosed various things along the way, but what it comes down to is that Dina is no… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“It would take a while to occur to him that my rules had sweet fuck-all in common with his.” — Tana French Copy Share Image
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day. — Tana French Copy Share Image
“…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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to. — Tana French Copy Share Image
“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 Image
