Tana French Quotes

We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

Everyone in life has those critical moments in their life when they know that something they did or didn't do would affect their future.

I was at the crossroads of my life when I was 7 years old.

We, as individuals, are defined by the choices we make. Some of our decisions can have very significant consequences and totally change the courses of our lives.

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as we have influence over what kind of person we're going to become, there are little tests along the way.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.