356 Quotes by Tana French

In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they’ve zipped past you:.

I put my time and energy into bringing answers, not hugs and hot chocolate.

They’re like those First World War airmen, the finest ones, shining in their recklessness and invincible, who got home and found that home had no place for what they were.

It’s ironic, isn’t it? A hundred psychology students, and not one of us recognized a classic psychopath. You know the strange thing? I wished I had done everything he claimed I had. If I had, then it would all have made sense: I would have been getting what I deserved. But I hadn’t done any of it, and yet that made absolutely no difference to what happened. There was no such thing as cause and.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind.

I had forgotten even how to want something slow, something soft, something with wide spaces and its own sure-footed swaying rhythms.

If you want to kill someone, have enough respect for my time to make it someone, anyone, other than the most gobsmackingly obvious person in the world. One.

If a guy’s whole head is in reality, then reality is the only route we can take to get to him. If he’s letting his mind prance off down dozens of twisty hypothetical fairy tales, every one of those is a crack we can use to prize him open.

The thing about old neighborhoods: people still mind each other’s business.