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Them Quotes by Tana French
- I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind.…
- If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
- When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to…
- But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how…
- Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands…
- My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind
- Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside…
- When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them
- People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market.…
- ...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had…
- We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls…
- I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster