
I've got good psychopath sensors now. It's like an allergy: you get exposed once, from then on you're supersensitized." She —
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 the bone. —
Tana French

We've become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we're so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it. —
Tana French

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? —
Holly Black

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. —
Tana French

People hurt each other. That's how it works. At least you were trying to do something good. Not everyone can say that much. —
Tana French

I filed him in my mental database under Useless Prick, for future reference. —
Tana French

The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser. —
Tana French

give my family an inch and they'll move into your house and start redecorating. —
Tana French

Ma and Mrs. Daly were on speaking terms, most of the time; women prefer to hate each other at close range, where you get more bang for your buck. —
Tana French

If it was true. This case was jammed with lies, couldn't grab hold of it without getting a handful. —
Tana French

Some stuff is gonna find a way to happen; once it's got started, you can't stop it no matter what you do. —
Tana French

Be scared terrified petrified that everything you are is every kind of wrong. Good girl. At —
Tana French

Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it. —
Tana French

Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair. —
Tana French

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all. —
Tana French

When
Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining. —
Holly Black

I love the unspoken dress code. —
Tana French

He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork. —
Tana French

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 —
Tana French

The music has turned into a distant hysterical pounding and shrieking, like someone has a tiny Rihanna locked in a box. —
Tana French

The overhead light streaked —
Tana French

But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons. —
Tana French

Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved. —
Tana French

In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask. —
Tana French

You are more dangerous than daybreak. —
Holly Black

All my signposts had gone up in one blinding, dizzying explosion [ ... ] none of the scenery looked familiar anymore. —
Tana French

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people. —
Tana French

sussed you or you're not going to get anywhere, wind it —
Tana French

The truth is the most desirable woman in the world and we are the most jealous lovers, reflexively denying anyone else the slightest glimpse of her. —
Tana French

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine. —
Tana French

They are forever, a brief and mortal forever, a forever that will grow into their bones and be held inside them after it ends, intact, indestructible. —
Tana French

Nobody knows you like people you grew up with. —
Tana French

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. —
Charles Frahman

If you care more about them than they do about you, they hate you for it. —
Tana French

I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from it since she was nine. —
Tana French

Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications. —
Tana French

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear. —
Tana French

They have a friend - "
Tana began.
"I have a friend, too," said Gavriel. "And I mean to kill him. —
Holly Black

Sarte was right, Hell is other people —
Tana French

I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had. —
Tana French

Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation. —
Tana French

Once the ruler is no longer willing to be the sacrifice for his people, he becomes not a leader but a leech, —
Tana French

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different —
Tana French

Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do. —
Tana French

All these private, parallel dimensions, underlying such an innocuous little estate; all these self-contained worlds layered onto the same space. —
Tana French

Her screams spiraled up into the night air —
Holly Black

Coldtown was dangerous.
Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them. —
Holly Black

If I am going to die, I might as well die sarcastic. —
Tana

I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior. —
Tana French

That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong. —
Tana French

I was twelve, after all, an age at which kids are bewildered and amorphous, transforming overnight, no matter how stable their lives are; —
Tana French

Underneath he has on jeans and a baggy beige jumper that's twenty quids' worth of knitted depression. "Let's —
Tana French

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did. —
Holly Black