Tana French
Tana French
Tana Frenchis an Irish novelist and theatrical actress. Her debut novel In the Woods, a psychological mystery, won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best first novel. She lives in Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
CountryIreland
people hell
Sarte was right, Hell is other people
people missing sometimes
Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.
people littles murderer
Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.
hate laziness accessories
I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories ...
retrospect noticing
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
wall heart night
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.
girl personality brain
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.
historical fiction mystery
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.
tragedy facts enough
One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.
people and-love too-much
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
people wrecks littles
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.
skills people special
Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.
running fall fighting
... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.
girl growing-up years
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.