Tana French

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap…

— Tana French

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

“Breakfast was the full whammy: eggs, rashers, sausages, black pudding, fried bread, fried tomatoes. This was clearly some kind of statement, but…

— Tana French

“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

“In my neighborhood, gossip is a competitive sport that’s been raised to Olympic standard, and I never diss gossip; I revere it…

— Tana French

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

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

“I know what the right woman, at the right moment, can do to a man- not that Tessie seemed to have got…

— Tana French

... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch…

— Tana French

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

“I needed to go into that bare, with nothing from my own life on my body, the way woodcutters' children in fairy…

— Tana French

“Now it seems obvious, of course, that even a strong person has weak spots and that I had hit Cassie's full force,…

— Tana French

“That spike of terror went through me again. He was like a raptor, not cruel, not good or evil, only and utterly…

— Tana French

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

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer,…

— Tana French

I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could…

— Tana French

“Nobody knows you like people you grew up with.”

— Tana French

“And then there’s its hair,” Justin said, pushing the vegetables across to me. “Don’t forget the hair. It’s horrible.” “It’s wearing a…

— Tana French

“Secretly, I still get proud of the ways Rosie and I loved each other. We had no one else to learn from…

— Tana French

“Murder is the thoroughbred stable. Murder is a shine and a dazzle, a smooth ripple like honed muscle, take your breath away.…

— Tana French

“Either the color on the TV set was off or he had used too much fake tan; his face was orange, the…

— Tana French

“As I closed the door I caught a last glimpse of her through the round window, still sitting straight-backed and motionless with…

— Tana French

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and…

— Tana French

“My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. If you…

— Tana French

“And some go the other way, the most lethal way of all: when the pressure gets to be too much, it's not…

— Tana French