Tana French Quotes - Page 4

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• Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.

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  Details, Tiny, Wonder

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• I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

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  Hate, Accessories, Laziness

  "The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 2)". Book by Tana French, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

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  Retrospect, Noticing

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• I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

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  Wall, Glasses, Skills

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• It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe you've got some idea how it felt: things coming alive around you, strange and new and utterly familiar at the same time; the catch in your heartbeat as you move through the rooms that had such a vivid untouchable life in your mind, as your feet actually touch the carpet, as you breathe the air; the odd, secret glow of warmth as these people you've been watching for so long, from so far away, open their circle and sweep you into it.

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  Moving, Book, Feet

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• The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.

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  Girl, Dream, Song

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• 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.

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  Tragedy, Facts, Enough

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• Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.

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  Skills, People, Special

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.

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  Home, Dark, Boys

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

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  Wall, Memories, Color

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, January 30, 2007.

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• I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.

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  Wall, Heart, Night

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

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  Hours, Throwing, Company

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.60, Hachette UK

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