Long Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tana French

“It would take a while to occur to him that my rules had sweet fuck-all in common with his.”

— Tana French

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tana French

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

— 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.”

— 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…

— Tana French

“Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass.”

— Tana French

My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.

— Tana French