Tana French Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Caught, Mundane

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.339, Hachette UK

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• Leo mucho. Siempre lo he hecho, pero en esos dos años me atiborré de libros con una glotonería voluptuosa, casi erótica. Iba a la biblioteca local, sacaba todos los que podía y me encerraba en casa a leer durante una semana. Buscaba libros viejos, cuanto más viejos mejor -Tolstoi, Poe, tragedias jacobinas, una polvorienta traducción de Laclos-, de modo que cuando por fin resurgía, parpadeante y deslumbrado, tardaba días en dejar de pensar en sus ritmos fríos, pulidos y cristalinos.

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  Libro, Pensamiento, Años

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

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• People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?

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  Teenager, People, Done

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

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  Ser, Gente, Dar

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2008.

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• I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

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  Writing, Needs, Way

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• Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.

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  Heart, Years, Faces

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• Sarte was right, Hell is other people

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  Gente, Infierno

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• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

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  Historical, Fiction, Mystery

  "Tana French: I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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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 item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

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  Thinking, Achievement, Brain

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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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  Writing, Lucky, Feels

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• When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

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  Character, Creating, Acting

  "Tana French: I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.

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  Journey, Hands, People

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• When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

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  Juntos, Piezas, Formas

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• Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.

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  People, Missing, Sometimes

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• Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

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  People, World, Wrecks

  Tana French (2010). “Faithful Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 3”, p.428, Hachette UK

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• Irlanda es una sociedad muy joven. Los británicos fueron la clase dominante hasta que se marcharon hace unos cien años, y desde entonces hemos estado intentando averiguar cuál es nuestra jerarquía de clases.

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  Years, Class, Work Out

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• No soy bueno para darme cuenta cuando soy feliz, excepto en retrospectiva. Mi don, o mi defecto fatal, es la nostalgia. A veces se me ha acusado de exigir la perfección, de rechazar los deseos del corazón en cuanto me acerco lo suficiente como para que el misterioso brillo impresionista se disperse en simples puntos sólidos, pero la verdad es menos simplista que eso. Sé muy bien que la perfección está hecha de mundanidades deshilachadas y fuera de lugar. Supongo que podría decirse que mi verdadera debilidad es una especie de miopía: por lo general, sólo a distancia, y demasiado tarde, puedo ver el patrón.

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  Distance, Real, Heart

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• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

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  Writing, Character, Views

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• I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

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  Religious, Needs, Belief

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• ... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

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  Running, Fall, Fighting

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• Es fácil creer que eres el hipnotizador, el maestro del espejismo, el listo que sabe lo que es real y cómo se hacen todos los trucos. Pero lo cierto es que no eres más que otro espectador boquiabierto. No importa lo bueno que seas, este mundo siempre va a ser mejor en este juego. Es más astuto que tú, más rápido y mucho más despiadado. Lo único que puedes hacer es intentar seguirle el ritmo, conocer tus puntos débiles y no dejar nunca de esperar el golpe de gracia.

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  Real, Smart, Believe

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• Some people should never meet.

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  Gente, Debería

  Tana French (2010). “Faithful Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 3”, p.383, Hachette UK

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• We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

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  Fear, Teenager, Shining

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• I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

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  Tendencies, Courses, Mines

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• This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

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  Girl, Reality, Light

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