Quotes from book
The Likeness

Name: The Likeness
Author: Tana French

The Likeness is a 2008 mystery novel by Tana French. Set in Ireland, it is the second volume in French's Dublin Murder Squad series.

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

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“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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“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 book The Likeness

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“Sarte was right, Hell is other people”

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

Tana French book The Likeness

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“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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“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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