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

—  Tana French, In the Woods

„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, buch The Likeness

„Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.“

—  Tana French, In the Woods

„I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.“

—  Tana French, buch The Likeness

„People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?“

—  Tana French, buch Broken Harbour

„Sarte was right, Hell is other people“

—  Tana French, buch The Likeness

„I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.“

—  Tana French, buch The Secret Place

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

—  Tana French, In the Woods

„If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.“

—  Tana French, In the Woods

„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.“

—  Tana French, buch Broken Harbour

„There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.“

—  Tana French, In the Woods

„I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.“

—  Tana French, buch The Likeness

„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.“

—  Tana French, buch The Likeness

„We think of mortality so little these days…
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be…“

—  Tana French, In the Woods

„We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.“

—  Tana French, buch Faithful Place