Tana French Quotes

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

As for me, I was a lonely kid, with few close friends until I was an adult - even when I might have been perceived as being on the inside, I felt like I was on the outside, kind of like viewing the world through a sheet of glass.

I always felt a little bit on the outside.

I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.

Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.