I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.
Tana FrenchWhat I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
Tana FrenchSometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.
Tana FrenchI thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
Tana FrenchThe girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.
Tana French