Tana French Short Quotes

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I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories...

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

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Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

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When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

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Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.

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Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?

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

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I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

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My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

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I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.

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

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I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

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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.

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