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The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5) QUOTES

The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5) QUOTES

1 " If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

2 " Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

3 " Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

4 " That long sigh again, above us. This time I saw it, moving through the branches. Like the trees were listening; like they would've been sad about us, sad for us, only they'd heard it all so many thousand times before. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

5 " The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

6 " It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

7 " You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

8 " How's Alison getting on?'

Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

9 " 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. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

10 " Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

11 " Smoked like it was fuel and he was going to get every last inch to the gallon. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

12 " Everyone's thought that: maybe even if, maybe we still could, maybe small bits of precious things can be salvaged. No one with cop-on thinks it after the first try. But her voice, quiet and sad, shimmering the air into those pearly colors: for a second I believed it, all over again. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

13 " They always act like they're having an amazing time, they're louder and high-pitched, shoving each other and screaming with laughter at nothing. But Becca knows what they're like when they're happy, and that's not it. Their faces on the way home afterwards look older and strained, smeared with the scraps of leftover expressions that were pressed on too hard and won't lift away. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

14 " I felt different, changing. Like today was my day, if I could just figure out how. Like danger, but my danger, sweet tricky urgent luck, tumbling through the air, heads or tails? "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

15 " I'm only talking to one person here. If that's you, then you need to shut up and listen. If it's not, then you need to shut up because no one's talking to you. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

16 " Not just the normal back-and-forth. A prickle in the air, a slicing edge. I couldn't tell if it was about her, or just the day that was it, or if it was the squad. Murder is different. The beat goes faster and harder; the tightrope is higher and narrower. One foot wrong, and you're gone. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

17 " I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

18 " They were amazed by each other, stunned silent, all in the circle of cypresses and night wind. The world outside was gone, nothing. Inside that circle the air was unfurling new colors, it was changing to something that cascaded and fountained pure gold and dazzle, and every breath changed them too. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

19 " The shot of cold air hits Becca like it's been fired straight through the glass from the huge outside, wild and magic, pungent with foxes and juniper. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

20 " I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty. "

― Tana French , The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)