“Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass.” — Tana French Copy Share Image
“...the truth is that every murder case is, if not simple, capable of simplicity, and that this is not only necessary but… — Tana French Copy Share Image
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“At least when I palmed Aislinn off on Gary, I had the basic honesty not to do it for her own good.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're… — 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
“Or maybe, and I like to hope it was this one, because the truth is more intricate and less attainable than I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. — 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
