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Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4) QUOTES

Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4) QUOTES

1 " 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 , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

2 " Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

3 " If her mind had held even the smallest chance of a future, she would have had no reason to tell me anything at all, whether or not it could send her to prison. But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk off the edges 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 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. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

4 " For as long as I could remember, a part of me had been waiting for the day it would happen; with the cunning that comes to people whose minds have been stripped to one desire, she picked the only day we weren't waiting for. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

5 " 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. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

6 " I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

7 " One of the reasons I love Murder is that victims are, as a general rule, dead... I don't make a habit of sharing this, in case people take me fore a sicko or- worse-a wimp, but give me a dead child, any day, over a child sobbing his heart out while you make him tell you what the bad man did next. Dead victims don't show up outside HQ to beg for answers, you never have to nudge them into reliving every hideous moment, and you never have to worry, and you never have to worry about what it'll do to their lives if you fuck up. They stay put in the morgue, light-years beyond anything I can do right or wrong, and leave me free to focus on the people who sent them there. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

8 " The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

9 " In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

10 " 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. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

11 " Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain of, certain to the bone, or if you could be that to someone else. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

12 " Don’t fool yourself: we all have a cruel streak. We keep it under lock and key either because we’re afraid of getting punished or because we believe this will somehow make a difference, make the world a better place. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

13 " I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

14 " Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

15 " If I believed in curses, I would believe that this is mine: when it matters most, in the moments when I know with the greatest clarity exactly what needs to be done, everything I say comes out wrong. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

16 " Some stuff is gonna find a way to happen; once it's got started, you can't stop it no matter what you do. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

17 " All those years of endless excruciating therapy sessions, of staying vigilant over every move and word and thought; I had been sure I was mended, all the breaks healed, all the blood washed away. I knew I had earned my way to safety. I had believed, beyond any doubt, that that meant I was safe. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

18 " It wasn't a remarkable face in any way, but it had a clean-lined sweetness that brought up summer barbecues, golden retrievers, soccer games on new-mown grass, and I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

19 " Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)

20 " Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama. "

― Tana French , Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)