Tana French Quotes - Page 4

• I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.

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  Years, Way, Evening

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• Tal vez ella, como yo, hubiera amado los pequeños detalles e inconvenientes aún más que las maravillas, porque son las cosas que demuestran que perteneces a un lugar.

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  Details, Tiny, Wonder

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• Real no es lo que intentan decirte. El tiempo no lo es. Los adultos te martillean con todos estos marcadores, campanas, horarios, pausas para el café, para que creas que el tiempo es algo pequeño y mezquino, algo que raspa copo tras copo todo lo que amas hasta que no queda nada; para que no despegues y vueles, dando saltos mortales por remolinos de meses, rozando remolinos de segundos brillantes, derramando puñados de horas sobre tu cara respingona.

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  Real, Coffee, Believe

  Tana French (2014). “The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

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  Beautiful, Morning, Moving

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

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  Lying, Two, Stories

  FaceBook post by Tana French from Aug 09, 2016

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• There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

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  Believe, Long, Principles

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

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  People, Littles, Murderer

  FaceBook post by Tana French from Sep 07, 2016

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

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  Retrospect, Noticing

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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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