Top 100 Quotes About Tana
#1. You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.
Holly Black
#2. Seems like Death came back for me."
He grinned, a subtly odd grin that somehow made her smile back. "You drove him off again. Sleep, Tana. I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. We have been adversaries for so long that we are closer than friends.
Holly Black
#3. Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
... "Shut up or I might," she told him.
Holly Black
#4. Aidan pulled against his bonds. "They keep talking to him in a whole bunch of languages. A lot of French. Something about the Thorn of Istra. I think he's in trouble."
"Are you?" Tana asked.
"Not exactly," said Gavriel.
Holly Black
#5. Coldtown was dangerous. Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them.
Holly Black
#6. How are you?" he asked softly.
"Well," Tana said. "Every new outfit I get, I manage to ruin within a few hours."
His grin was immediate, his gaze going to her dress and then away. "Leather wipes down.
Holly Black
#7. In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
Holly Black
#8. They have a friend - " Tana began.
"I have a friend, too," said Gavriel. "And I mean to kill him.
Holly Black
#9. It came to her, all of a sudden, the words he'd said to her in Lance's house.
If I'm hurt, you must be very careful. No, Tana, you must listen. You must be careful of me.
He hadn't been worried he was going to get hurt. He'd been worried that he was going to hurt someone else.
Holly Black
#10. Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
Holly Black
#11. Kia ora meant hello. Tana was man, wahine woman. She learned that you did not say "thank you" but showed your gratitude through actions and that the Maori did not shake hands in greeting but rubbed noses instead. This ritual was called hongi
Sarah Lark
#12. Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black
#13. Gazing at her for a long moment with something like horror, as though he was seeing her for the first time, he spoke. "You are more dangerous than daybreak."
Before Tana could reply, he stepped into the lengthening shadows of morning and was gone.
Holly Black
#14. Is he going to- will he live?"
"No," said Gavriel. "No chance of that. He wants to die, so he will. But not tonight and not because of me."
"Oh," Tana said. "So he's okay?
Holly Black
#15. When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.
Holly Black
#16. This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its most pure, most polished and most highly evolved form.
Tana French
#17. If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
Tana French
#18. 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
#19. He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
Holly Black
#20. They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.
Holly Black
#21. 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
#22. Be scared terrified petrified that everything you are is every kind of wrong. Good girl. At
Tana French
#23. Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.
Tana French
#24. 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
#25. I put my time and energy into bringing answers, not hugs and hot chocolate.
Tana French
#26. Daniel's voice brushed along my cheek like dark feathers, like a long night wind coming down from some far mountain. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.
Tana French
#27. Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.
Tana French
#28. Ah, dammit to hell and blast and nonspecific fornication" I said, when the rivet went shooting off into the grass again. "Is everyone OK with that?"
"What's wrong with nonspecific fornication?" Abby demanded. "I don't like my fornication specific.
Tana French
#29. Equality is paper-deep, peel it away with a fingernail.
Tana French
#30. someone else, bore its way in and feed off that mind too. Even the cute little student mincing along in her flowery dress, the shuffling old fella with his shuffling spaniel, they look Ebola-lethal. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me. Maybe I'm getting the flu.
Tana French
#31. Mental' isn't a reason. It comes in an awful lot of flavors, most of them are non-violent, and every single one of them has some kind of logic, whether or not it makes sense to you and me.
Tana French
#32. That long sigh again, above us. This time I saw it, moving through the branches. Like the trees were listening; like they would've been sad about us, sad for us, only they'd heard it all so many thousand times before.
Tana French
#33. If it was true. This case was jammed with lies, couldn't grab hold of it without getting a handful.
Tana French
#34. People wonder whether I got my presenting job as a result of my own abilities or because of Gordon, which is a little unfair.
Tana Ramsay
#35. Girlfriends aren't allowed to care if you have Stilton socks. Friends are." All the same, she gave her hands a quick, professional shake and took hold of my foot. "Plus, you might be less of a pain in the arse if you got more action.
Tana French
#37. I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living
and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.
Tana French
#38. The thing about old neighborhoods: people still mind each other's business.
Tana French
#39. Underneath he has on jeans and a baggy beige jumper that's twenty quids' worth of knitted depression. "Let's
Tana French
#40. I had started trying - it for the first time, really - it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the edges of it, barely acknowledging even to myself what I was doing, like a kid picking at a scab but afraid to look.
Tana French
#41. She came out of sleep like a thunderclap - waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.
Holly Black
#42. I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor.
Tana French
#43. And I didn't need telepathy, either. Ask any woman you're ever had a relationship with: I guarantee she knew she was second best. A placeholder, till the one you actually wanted came home.
Tana French
#44. The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.
Tana French
#45. 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.
Tana French
#46. I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.
Tana French
#47. Boyle is a round, pancake-faced little oddball who gives you the impression that he has a room at home packed with disturbing magazines, neatly alphabetized, but he runs a scene impeccably
Tana French
#48. That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong.
Tana French
#49. I always figured nerves were for Jane Austen characters and helium-voiced girls who never buy their round; I would no more have turned shaky in a crisis than I would have carried smelling salts around in my reticule.
Tana French
#50. Have a good laugh at this, ... Deep down, I never for a second never thought they would find anything.
Tana French
#51. 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
Tana French
#52. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver.
Tana French
#53. 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
#54. I was never afraid of getting killed and I was never afraid of losing my nerve. My kind of courage holds up best under fire; it's different dangers, more refined and insidious ones, that shake me.
Tana French
#55. Smoked like it was fuel and he was going to get every last inch to the gallon.
Tana French
#56. 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
#57. When you look at someone you knew when you were young, you always see the person you first met,
Tana French
#58. She wants to leap up and do a handstand, or get someone to race her fast and far to wreck them both: anything that will turn her body back into something that's about what it can do, not all about how it looks.
Tana French
#59. My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind
Tana French
#60. In my neighborhood, gossip is a competitive sport that's been raised to Olympic standard, and I never diss gossip; I revere it with all my heart.
Tana French
#61. He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood.
Holly Black
#62. Trust your instincts, Dad always says. If something feels dodgy to you, if someone feels dodgy, you go with dodgy. Don't give the benefit of the doubt because you want to be a nice person, don't wait and see in case you look stupid. Safe comes first. Second could be too late.
Tana French
#63. She was older, no longer the wicked limber girl with the stalled Vespa, but no less beautiful to me for that: whatever elliptical beauty Cassie possesses has always lain not in the vulnerable planes of color and texture but deeper, in the polished contours of her bones.
Tana French
#64. She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women," she advised me. "They can't always tell.
Tana French
#65. If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.
Tana French
#66. Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones.
Tana French
#67. Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.
Tana French
#68. 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
#69. I spend my days watching soap operas, eating bonbons and plotting society's downfall.
Tana French
#70. 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
#71. My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. If you don't know that, he said, what are you worth? Nothing. You're not a man at all.
Tana French
#72. Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.
Tana French
#73. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frahman
#74. I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.
Tana French
#75. Alison's mum has had a lot of plastic surgery and she wears fake eyelashes the size of hairbrushes. She looks sort of like a person but not really, like someone explained to aliens what a person is and they did their best to make one of their own.
Tana French
#76. I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty.
Tana French
#77. When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.
Tana French
#78. The front door opened smoothly to my key, the air inside stirred as I came in and it didn't feel over-intimate anymore; it felt like a slight smile and a cool brief touch on the cheek, like a welcome.
Tana French
#79. 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
#80. All my signposts had gone up in one blinding, dizzying explosion [ ... ] none of the scenery looked familiar anymore.
Tana French
#81. It was as if Tutankhamen or Miss Havisham had wandered into the pub one night and started bitching about the head on the pints.
Tana French
#82. If I am going to die, I might as well die sarcastic.
Tana
#83. there are deep stubborn veins of nostalgia for the 1950s (even among people my age; in much of Ireland the fifties didn't end until 1995, when we skipped straight to Thatcher's eighties),
Tana French
#84. A man needs to know when to let things lie." I
Tana French
#85. 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
#86. Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
Holly Black
#87. 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
#88. It's not tiddlywinks now, is it?..... NZ Rugby Legend
Tana Umaga
#89. There was a great jagged hole where they had ripped out the fireplace; the wall around it was crowded with faded graffiti explain who loved who, who was gay and who should fuck off.
Tana French
#90. I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.
Tana French
#91. Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you.
Tana French
#92. Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Holly Black
#93. Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.
Tana French
#94. Selena feels the hidden things thinning away to black veils you could pop with a fingertip, puddling into harmless sleep on the ground.
Tana French
#95. Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.
Tana French
#96. What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this
two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
Tana French
#97. If I believed in curses, I would believe that this is mine: when it matters most, in the moments when I know with the greatest clarity exactly what needs to be done, everything I say comes out wrong.
Tana French
#98. Princess. You'd have brought her the moon. Her or me, did
Tana French
#100. If you want to kill someone, have enough respect for my time to make it someone, anyone, other than the most gobsmackingly obvious person in the world. One
Tana French
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