Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and… — 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
“In the moment when that glass passed from his hand to mine, something sent up a high wild warning cry in the… — 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
“She was like a reprieve; like Eurydice, gifted back to Orpheus from the darkness for a brief miraculous moment. I wanted, so… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“This is not an easy thing to admit, but until that moment I had held out some craven speck of hope that… — 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
“You know something?” Frank said, after a moment. “You’ve got a bad habit of taking too much credit for the stuff other… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The moment I said Broken Harbor to O’Kelly, every faded scar in my mind had lit up like a beacon. I had… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I'm not the type to look back over my shoulder, or at least I try hard not to be. Gone is gone;… — 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
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I had started trying—it for the first time, really—it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I know what the right woman, at the right moment, can do to a man- not that Tessie seemed to have got… — Tana French Copy Share Image
You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to… — 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
I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“But if you’ve seen a dead body, you know how they change the air: that huge silence, the absence strong as a… — Tana French Copy Share Image
For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black… — Tana French Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their… — 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
