“In the hazy afternoon light through the windows he looked beautiful and dissolute, shirt open at the collar and streaks of golden hair falling into his eyes, like some Regency buck after a long night's dancing.” DescriptionHandsomeSimileRegencyTana FrenchRakeThe Likeness Book:The Likeness Source: The Likeness
“I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.” HomeHouseFreedomHome OwnershipTana FrenchThe Likeness Book:The Likeness Source: The Likeness
“I used to believe, bless my naive little heart, that I had something to offer the robbed dead. Not revenge-there’s no revenge in the world that could return the tiniest fraction of what they’ve lost-and not justice, whatever that means, but the one thing left to give them: the truth. I was good at it. I had one, at least, of the things that make a great detective: the instinct for truth, the inner magnet whose pull tells you beyond any doubt what’s dross, what’s alloy, and what’s the pure, uncut metal. I dug out the nuggets without caring when they cut my fingers and brought them in my cupped hands to lay on graves, until I found out-Operation Vestal again-how slippery they were, how easily they crumbled, how deep they sliced and, in the end, how very little they were worth.” TruthDetectiveTana FrenchThe LikenessCassie Maddox Book:The Likeness Source: The Likeness
“I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life.” LoveSadQuoteDeclarations Of LoveTana FrenchThe Likeness Book:The Likeness Source: The Likeness