Quotes by Tana French

Tana French

… 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.

Fall

Fighting

Running

Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don’t notice. Pretty soon, if you’re a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.

People

Skills

Special

Both back when I was acting and now that I’m writing, I’ve always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

Careers

Morning

Writing

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.

Giving

Hands

May

But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone’s mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else’s hands, so it won’t weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.

Hands

Journey

People

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.

Coming Out

Discouraged

Needs

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

Different

Growing Up

Parent

Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It’s because they’re held here so lightly: they haven’t yet accumulated loves and responsibilities and commitments and all the things that tie us securely to this world. They can let go of it as easily and simply as lifting a finger. But as you get older, you begin to find things that are worth holding onto, forever.

Commitment

Letting Go

Suicide

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

Littles

Murderer

People

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

Courses

Mines

Tendencies

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Animal

Beautiful

Belief

Believe

Block

Blow

Book

Boys

Careers

Caught

Color

Coming Out

Commitment

Company

Couple

Courses

Cutting

Dark

Details

Different

Discouraged

Done

Drama

Dream

Enough

Evening

Facts

Fall

Fear

Feet

Fifty

Fighting

Flower

Forever

Found

Girl

Giving

Glasses

Growing Up

Hands

Heart

Home

Hours

Hurt

Jobs

Journey

Kids

Letting Go

Life

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Quotes by Tana French

Tana French

… 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.

Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don’t notice. Pretty soon, if you’re a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.

Both back when I was acting and now that I’m writing, I’ve always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

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.

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.

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

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

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

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