Tana French citations (29 citations)

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Tana French: Citations en anglais

“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”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

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

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

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

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

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

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Tana French livre Faithful Place

Source: Faithful Place

“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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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“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.”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

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

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Tana French livre Faithful Place

Source: Faithful Place

“We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.”

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.”

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.”

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Tana French livre Faithful Place

Source: Faithful Place

“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.”

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

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

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“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.”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

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Tana French In the Woods

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Source: In the Woods

“I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“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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Tana French livre Broken Harbour

Source: Broken Harbour

“Sarte was right, Hell is other people”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.”

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Tana French livre The Secret Place

Source: The Secret Place

“Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different”

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.”

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.”

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Tana French livre Broken Harbour

Source: Broken Harbour

“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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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“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.”

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Tana French livre The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“We think of mortality so little these days…
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be…”

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Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“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.”

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Tana French livre Faithful Place

Source: Faithful Place