Quotes from Tana French

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

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.

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.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

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

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

Most people have no reason to know how memory can turn rogue and feral, becoming a force of its own and one to be reckoned with.

Manners is treating people with respect.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.