“I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your… — 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
“When you stop being a kid, you lose your one chance at that too-tender-to-touch gold, that breathtaken everything and forever. Once you… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“About your easy heads my prayers I said with syllables of clay. What gift, I asked, shall I bring now Before I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“She was wearing combat trousers and a wine-colored woollen sweater with sleeves that came down past her wrists, and clunky runners, and… — 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
“For about five minutes, as I tried to get the Vespa to start, I fell in love with her. The oversized raincoat… — 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
