Tana French Quotes

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off of the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.

Be free, and live life fully.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.