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In the Woods

In the Woods
Tana French

In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve-year-old girl. The novel won several awards such as the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, the 2008 Barry Award for Best First Novel, the 2008 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and the 2008 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

“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…”

Tana French In the Woods

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“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.”

Tana French In the Woods

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“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.”

Tana French In the Woods

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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.”

Tana French In the Woods

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

Tana French In the Woods

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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.”

Tana French In the Woods

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“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.”

Tana French In the Woods

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

Tana French In the Woods

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

Tana French In the Woods

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“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.”

Tana French In the Woods

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“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.”

Tana French In the Woods

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“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

Tana French In the Woods

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

Tana French In the Woods

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