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Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much. — Tana French

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it. — Tana French

Equality is paper-deep, peel it away with a fingernail. — Tana French

Some people should never meet. — Tana French

The corners of Cooper's mouth tucked in, which is as close as he gets to a smile. He said, "Do come in. — Tana French

My body my mind the way I dress the way I walk the way I talk, mine all mine. — Tana French

This has nothing to do with what anyone else in all the world would approve or forbid. This is all their own. — Tana French

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet. — Holly Black

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this
two things: I crave truth. And I lie. — Tana French

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK. — Tana French

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty. — Tana French

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories ... — Tana French

The thing about old neighborhoods: people still mind each other's business. — Tana French

It's not tiddlywinks now, is it?..... NZ Rugby Legend — Tana Umaga

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. — Tana French

There's optimistic, and then there's plain crazy. — Tana French

Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown — Holly Black

I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life. — Tana French

Rory is fun when he's pissed off: like a fluffy little attack gerbil. — Tana French

Ah, background checks,' I say. 'The foundation of every beautiful romance. — Tana French

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life. — Tana French

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you. — Holly Black

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 need them to. — Tana French

I spend my days watching soap operas, eating bonbons and plotting society's downfall. — Tana French

I wanted it the way an alcoholic must want booze: badly enough to shove aside the hard knowledge that this was a truly lousy idea. — Tana French

But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. — Tana French

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane. — Tana French

The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that. — Tana French

Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones. — Tana French

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much? — Tana French

The squealing little arse-gerbil. — 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 with all my heart. — Tana French

If I've learned one thing today, it's that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods. Detective Stephen Moran — Tana French

A man needs to know when to let things lie." I — Tana French

When you look at someone you knew when you were young, you always see the person you first met, — Tana French

That kind of absolute faith is one of those things that, like virginity, can only be lost once — Tana French

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. — Tana French

When she was born I wanted to go out and kill someone for her, so she would know for sure, all her life, that I was ready to do it if it needed doing. — Tana French

a cipher, composed entirely of the jumbled reflections of what he thinks other people want to see. — Tana French

A breath of sound across the landing, almost imperceptible, like a shadow moving against blackness; then nothing. — Tana French

I spent a lot of the holidays at Charlie's home in Herefordshire, learning to drive on his — Tana French

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head. — Tana French

Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do."
"We all know what you'd do, though, don't we? — Holly Black

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did. — Holly Black

It was as if Tutankhamen or Miss Havisham had wandered into the pub one night and started bitching about the head on the pints. — Tana French

Two of the human race's greatest myths: the possibility of permanence, and the simplicity of human nature. — Tana French

Sarte was right, Hell is other people — Tana French

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

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

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

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

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

In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death. — Holly Black

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love the unspoken dress code. — Tana French

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

I filed him in my mental database under Useless Prick, for future reference. — 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 am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. — 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

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

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

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

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