The Secret Place Tana French Quotes

#1. Not just the normal back-and-forth. A prickle in the air, a slicing edge. I couldn't tell if it was about her, or just the day that was it, or if it was the squad. Murder is different. The beat goes faster and harder; the tightrope is higher and narrower. One foot wrong, and you're gone.

Tana French

#2. Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends' secret places.

Tana French

#3. I wondered how a soul could feel so tired after only sixteen years on this mortal coil.

Peter W. Dawes

#4. Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.

Tana French

#5. I should've known the eyes. Wide, bright blue, and something about the delicate arc of the lids: a cat's slant, a pale jeweled girl in an old painting, a secret.

Tana French

#6. How's Alison getting on?'

Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.

Tana French

#7. Everyone's thought that: maybe even if, maybe we still could, maybe small bits of precious things can be salvaged. No one with cop-on thinks it after the first try. But her voice, quiet and sad, shimmering the air into those pearly colors: for a second I believed it, all over again.

Tana French

#8. It does that to you, being a detective. You look at blank space and see gears turning, motives and cunning; nothing looks innocent any more. Most times when you prove away the gears, the blank space looks lovely, peaceful. But that arm: innocent, it looked just as dangerous.

Tana French

#9. What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

Reginald Horace Blyth

#10. Do not disturb. Already there. - T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#11. Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

Greg Proops

#13. 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

#14. Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole.

Will Durant

#15. Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

Tom Holland

#16. I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'

Kenneth Branagh

#17. I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty.

Tana French

#18. A flame in the dark

Richelle Mead

#19. 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

#20. Smoked like it was fuel and he was going to get every last inch to the gallon.

Tana French

#21. making sense? what fun is there in making sense?"~ Discord

Hasbro My Little Pony

#22. The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.

Tana French

#23. 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

#24. I don't know where 12 months has gone.

Stuart Appleby