dialogue prompts from the hunter by tana french.
my default position is to keep things separate.
chip off the old block, huh?
you've always got a bit of something on the go.
cookies in the jar, if you need to top up.
too many things can happen, at fifteen.
you've taken too many knocks in your life not to have cracks somewhere.
you here for good, or just for a while?
i make it my practice never to bullshit.
you're large as life and twice as gorgeous.
word still travels fast around here. the place hasn't changed a bit.
the men who age best are the feckless ones.
i'm never gonna get married.
you're an awful idiot, but i can't hold that against you.
i've got too settled in my ways to go making changes.
go on and get some sleep now. i'll get you a t-shirt.
don't trust grown men with boyish smiles.
we can't all have the same gifts.
i'm opposed to cops on general principle.
you and me got different ideas of entertainment.
you never know when there might be something you can't afford to miss.
being boring is among my main goals.
what were you nice to me for?
i've got plenty of faults, but no one could say i'm not nice.
when the world's being good to you, you're good to everyone.
i love being first with a bit of gossip.
i can't tell whether i would've done anything differently.
i won't make your moods my responsibility.
i can't get over the size of you.
you have no right anywhere near ____.
are you not speaking to me?
there was nothing i could do for you here.
i never used to have a cruel bone in my body.
don't be holding it against me, if you can help it.
i can tell you believe it, but you always do.
i hear a lot more than i say.
i can keep my mouth shut when i want.
i liked you better back when you didn't talk.
you're never happy unless you're miserable.
what will you spend your millions on?
i'm not sure what a millionaire is supposed to look like.
i'm here. that's all i am, right now.
you can't make people hear what they don't want to hear.
i can go for days without talking to anyone, if i feel like it.
you're too fond of getting your own way.
i have an aversion to charm.
i should've known better than to ask a teenager to get out of bed before noon.
you don't make life easy for yourself, do you?
i have to hand it to you, i never saw that one coming.
i'd do anything for you. you know that, yeah?
waiting and watching aren't enough anymore.
you always thought you were too great to follow the rules.
i'd murder a glass of that tea, if you have any in the fridge.
you can't have it both ways. which is it?
you don't have to do anything you don't want to.
i'm in no state to be having delicate conversations, and neither are you.
men get awful edgy if you upset their dreams.
i don't want a clean fight. not with you.
it's nice to know the old instincts are still in working order.
a bit of company wouldn't be a bad thing.
i ought to spit in their faces, only i can't afford to.
you had the best pokerface of any of us.
i wish i could ground you until you get more sense.
making up stories and getting people to believe them is what you're good at.
you seem surprisingly okay.
you aren't god. you can't make guarantees.
i'd never trust a charmer.
i bet you were a good _____.
don't be picking at your nails. you'll give yourself an infection.
i wasn't trying to be nosy.
i'm dying for a smoke. don't you be following my example.
i know when someone's deciding whether to tell me the truth.
___ never did see me, but i was there.
everyone around me is changing.
you can do without me, if you have to.
after all this time, i still can't predict you.
this isn't the way i meant to come home.
i'll send you a postcard someday, from wherever i land.
anything you feel like telling me, go for it. i want to hear it. but i'm not gonna ask.