"I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone……" — Tana French
"I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges."
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77 Quotes by Tana French
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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other…
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I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls…
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Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming…
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Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting…
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years…
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my…
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You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every…
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It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real…
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get…
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend…
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