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…

- Tana French

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

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 …

- Tana French

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, so…

- Tana French

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 an…

- Tana French

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

- Tana French

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.

- Tana French

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

- Tana French

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…

- Tana French