{"author":"Tana French","author_id":"Tana+French","total_quotes":70,"quotes":[{"text":"If you're good at this job, and I am, then every step in a murder case moves you in one direction: towards order. We get thrown shards of senseless wreckage, and we piece them together until we can lift the picture out of the darkness and hold it up to the white light of day, solid, complete, clear. Under all the paperwork and the politics, this is the job; this is its cool shining heart that I love with every fiber of mine. This case was different. It was running backwards, dragging us with it on some ferocious ebb tide. Every step washed us deeper in black chaos, wrapped us tighter in tendrils of crazy and pulled us downwards.","author":"Tana French","tags":["broken-harbor","detective","investigation","metaphor","murder","tana-french"],"id":9202,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"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.","author":"Tana French","tags":["blue-eyes","cat-eyes","description","eyes","tana-french","the-secret-place"],"id":9380,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.","author":"Tana French","tags":["bullies","click","fingerprints","friends","friendship","girlfriends","girls","group","lies","lost","places","secrets","separate","smell","tana-french","teenagers","the-secret-place","unique","women"],"id":14850,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"The truth is the most desirable woman in the world and we are the most jealous lovers, reflexively denying anyone else the slightest glimpse of her. We betray her routinely, spending hours and days stupor-deep in lies, and then turn back to her holding out the lover's ultimate Möbius strip: But I only did it because I love you so much.","author":"Tana French","tags":["lies","truth"],"id":16407,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. ","author":"Tana French","tags":["life","truth"],"id":24038,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who’ve been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.","author":"Tana French","tags":["life-philosophy"],"id":26637,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.","author":"Tana French","tags":["sacrifice"],"id":40615,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"Like, okay. Everyone in history thought they were the ones who finally knew everything. In their naissance, right, they were positive they knew exactly how the universe worked. Til the next set of guys came along and proved they were missing like a hundred important things. And then that set of guys were sure they had it all down, til another set came along and showed them parts they were missing.' He glances at Julia, checking if she's laughing at him, which she isn't, and if she's listening, which she is, completely. 'So.' he says, 'it's pretty unlikely, mathematically, that we are living in the one single era that has everything figured out. Which means there's a decent possibility that the reason we can't explain how ghosts and stuff could exist is because we haven't figured it out yet, not because they don't. And it is pretty arrogant of us to think it definitely has to be the other way around.","author":"Tana French","tags":["ghosts","history"],"id":50526,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"It always took my breath away,’ he said, ‘that the five of us could have found one another–against such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up… Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they’re for you; that’s your life, your future, fidgeting in that line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don’t miss it.","author":"Tana French","tags":["fate","friendship","miracles"],"id":60707,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.","author":"Tana French","tags":["death","spin"],"id":70885,"author_id":"Tana+French"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}