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Tana French Quotes

Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can’t have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it’s a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that’s worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK Picture Quote #1

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we’ve been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since Picture Quote #1

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Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself Picture Quote #1

Don’t you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it’s all too much? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you’re faced with a set of choices which will change life forever Picture Quote #1

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we’ve been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since Picture Quote #1

Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out Picture Quote #1

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I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect Picture Quote #1

Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it Picture Quote #1

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine Picture Quote #1

Some people should never meet Picture Quote #1

Don’t get discouraged if you’re hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You’re allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once Picture Quote #1

This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn’t run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored the pedal and she went like wildfire, streamed down night freeways with both hands off the wheel and her head back screaming to the sky like a lynx, white lines and green lights whipping away into the dark, her tires inches off the ground and freedom crashing up her spine Picture Quote #1

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Both back when I was acting and now that I’m writing, I’ve always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing Picture Quote #1

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there Picture Quote #1

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you’re faced with a set of choices which will change life forever Picture Quote #1

I thought I could never write a proper book; I’d never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane Picture Quote #1

Here’s a little tip for you. If you don’t like being called a murderer, don’t kill people Picture Quote #1

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Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can’t have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it’s a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that’s worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice. (Tana French Quotes) 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 Quotes) Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out (Tana French Quotes) 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 Quotes) Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK (Tana French Quotes) Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we’ve been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since (Tana French Quotes) Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself (Tana French Quotes) Don’t you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it’s all too much? (Tana French Quotes) 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. (Tana French Quotes) I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you’re faced with a set of choices which will change life forever. (Tana French Quotes) Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we’ve been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since. (Tana French Quotes) Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out. (Tana French Quotes) I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect (Tana French Quotes) Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it (Tana French Quotes) I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine (Tana French Quotes) Some people should never meet (Tana French Quotes) Don’t get discouraged if you’re hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You’re allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once (Tana French Quotes) This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn’t run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored the pedal and she went like wildfire, streamed down night freeways with both hands off the wheel and her head back screaming to the sky like a lynx, white lines and green lights whipping away into the dark, her tires inches off the ground and freedom crashing up her spine (Tana French Quotes) Both back when I was acting and now that I’m writing, I’ve always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing (Tana French Quotes) I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day (Tana French Quotes) 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 Quotes) I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there (Tana French Quotes) I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you’re faced with a set of choices which will change life forever (Tana French Quotes) I thought I could never write a proper book; I’d never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down (Tana French Quotes) 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 (Tana French Quotes) 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 (Tana French Quotes) 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 (Tana French Quotes) 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 (Tana French Quotes) I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane (Tana French Quotes) Here’s a little tip for you. If you don’t like being called a murderer, don’t kill people (Tana French Quotes)

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