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Donna Tartt quotes: Only now was it starting to make sense why Lady Macbeth could never scrub the blood off her hands, why it was still there after she washed it away. Only now was it starting to make sense why Lady Macbeth could never scrub the blood off her hands, why it was still there after she washed it away.
Donna Tartt quotes: But it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light. But it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light.
Donna Tartt quotes: Clearly 'worry' was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person. Clearly 'worry' was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person.
Donna Tartt quotes: Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
Donna Tartt quotes: Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set. Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set.
Donna Tartt quotes: I was struck by something rather obvious - namely, that any religious ritual is arbitrary unless one is able to see past it to a deeper meaning. I was struck by something rather obvious - namely, that any religious ritual is arbitrary unless one is able to see past it to a deeper meaning.
Donna Tartt quotes: You amaze me," he said. "You think nothing exists if you can't see it. You amaze me," he said. "You think nothing exists if you can't see it.
Donna Tartt quotes: ... still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life ... ... still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life ...
Donna Tartt quotes: Had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction. Had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction.
Donna Tartt quotes: Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?
Donna Tartt quotes: There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death. There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.
Donna Tartt quotes: Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260
Donna Tartt quotes: Beauty is terror. Beauty is terror.
Donna Tartt quotes: Never do what you can't undo. Never do what you can't undo.
Donna Tartt quotes: Fact it seemed we had been doing things, such as stringing necklaces of rainbow-colored candy while the radio played Belle and Sebastian Fact it seemed we had been doing things, such as stringing necklaces of rainbow-colored candy while the radio played Belle and Sebastian
Donna Tartt quotes: The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn't really there. The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn't really there.
Donna Tartt quotes: I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier,
Donna Tartt quotes: But if you close the door ... the night could last forever ... But if you close the door ... the night could last forever ...
Donna Tartt quotes: At first I thought they were playing to an At first I thought they were playing to an
Donna Tartt quotes: I really do work in solitude. I really do work in solitude.
Donna Tartt quotes: the atmosphere it breathed was like the light-rinsed airiness of a wall opposite an open window. the atmosphere it breathed was like the light-rinsed airiness of a wall opposite an open window.
Donna Tartt quotes: We'd have to devise a plan, probably a rather Pyrrhic and unsatisfactory one. We'd have to devise a plan, probably a rather Pyrrhic and unsatisfactory one.
Donna Tartt quotes: Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it.
Donna Tartt quotes: People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see. People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see.
Donna Tartt quotes: She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief. She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief.
Donna Tartt quotes: Worrying, Potter! Don't stand there and look so unhappy! If we lose, we win, and if we win, we win! Everything is good! Worrying, Potter! Don't stand there and look so unhappy! If we lose, we win, and if we win, we win! Everything is good!
Donna Tartt quotes: As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how. As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.
Donna Tartt quotes: No matter how hard I tried to wish him out of the picture - for there he always was, in my hands and my voice and my walk ... No matter how hard I tried to wish him out of the picture - for there he always was, in my hands and my voice and my walk ...
Donna Tartt quotes: They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
Donna Tartt quotes: Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright. Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright.
Donna Tartt quotes: telephone, "Myriam's not my wife! This - " he handed telephone, "Myriam's not my wife! This - " he handed
Donna Tartt quotes: Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
Donna Tartt quotes: my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good. And my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good. And
Donna Tartt quotes: But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work. But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
Donna Tartt quotes: All things fall and are built again. All things fall and are built again.
Donna Tartt quotes: Safe trip. I love you. No kidding. Safe trip. I love you. No kidding.
Donna Tartt quotes: I am sorry, as well, to present such a sketchy and disappointing exegesis of what is in fact the central part of my story. I am sorry, as well, to present such a sketchy and disappointing exegesis of what is in fact the central part of my story.
Donna Tartt quotes: Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128 Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128
Donna Tartt quotes: And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars. And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.
Donna Tartt quotes: For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless. For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless.
Donna Tartt quotes: It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare. It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.
Donna Tartt quotes: What is unthinkable is undoable What is unthinkable is undoable
Donna Tartt quotes: Matters progressed. Matters progressed.
Donna Tartt quotes: No, he's asleep. Where's my mother? Is No, he's asleep. Where's my mother? Is
Donna Tartt quotes: I see so little of you these days, Richard," he said. "I feel that you're becoming just a shadow in my life. I see so little of you these days, Richard," he said. "I feel that you're becoming just a shadow in my life.
Donna Tartt quotes: Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we? Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?
Donna Tartt quotes: And if what they say is trueif every great painting is really a self-portraitwhat, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself? And if what they say is true
if every great painting is really a self-portrait
what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?
Donna Tartt quotes: The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
Donna Tartt quotes: By happy contrast, Hobie's whole day revolved around dinner. By happy contrast, Hobie's whole day revolved around dinner.
Donna Tartt quotes: hubris on Henry's, too much Greek prose composition - whatever hubris on Henry's, too much Greek prose composition - whatever
Donna Tartt quotes: Whe can't escape who we are Whe can't escape who we are
Donna Tartt quotes: What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well - most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid. What do you think about America?"
"Everyone always smiles so big! Well - most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.
Donna Tartt quotes: throw up his hands and say, 'Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.' throw up his hands and say, 'Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.'
Donna Tartt quotes: He'd probably just crawl in the corner and starve. Like a hamster you forgot to feed. He'd probably just crawl in the corner and starve. Like a hamster you forgot to feed.
Donna Tartt quotes: What you want is to live and be happy in the world is a woman (or man) who has her (his) own life and lets you have yours What you want is to live and be happy in the world is a woman (or man) who has her (his) own life and lets you have yours
Donna Tartt quotes: Beauty alters the grain of reality. Beauty alters the grain of reality.
Donna Tartt quotes: Well, she doesn't have anything to do with it, Richard, you're just like that guy in 'Dragnet' that always wants the facts. Well, she doesn't have anything to do with it, Richard, you're just like that guy in 'Dragnet' that always wants the facts.
Donna Tartt quotes: He said well if you can't plan it out ahead of time, you'll just have to work it out as you go along He said well if you can't plan it out ahead of time, you'll just have to work it out as you go along
Donna Tartt quotes: Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness. Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness.
Donna Tartt quotes: That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it. That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.
Donna Tartt quotes: A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing. A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.
Donna Tartt quotes: When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
Donna Tartt quotes: All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her.
Donna Tartt quotes: We had trench warfare in America way before World War I. Most people don't know that. We had trench warfare in America way before World War I. Most people don't know that.
Donna Tartt quotes: I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence. I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.
Donna Tartt quotes: And sharp-faced, like Boris, but with an evil red-rimmed gaze and tiny, brownish sawteeth. He made me think of a rabid fox. And sharp-faced, like Boris, but with an evil red-rimmed gaze and tiny, brownish sawteeth. He made me think of a rabid fox.
Donna Tartt quotes: Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
Donna Tartt quotes: But the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse. But the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.
Donna Tartt quotes: He was a planet without an atmosphere. He was a planet without an atmosphere.
Donna Tartt quotes: It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
Donna Tartt quotes: There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial
Donna Tartt quotes: All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another. All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.
Donna Tartt quotes: Different cultures and all that, but it's true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative. Different cultures and all that, but it's true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.
Donna Tartt quotes: I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed. I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed.
Donna Tartt quotes: Although, I do have to say, it was difficult to imagine him Although, I do have to say, it was difficult to imagine him
Donna Tartt quotes: You are, and you are very very gifted at all the aspects of the business I don't care to deal with, and you You are, and you are very very gifted at all the aspects of the business I don't care to deal with, and you
Donna Tartt quotes: Janet who said excellent! in answer to everything and drank coffee from a pink mug that said Janet. Janet who said excellent! in answer to everything and drank coffee from a pink mug that said Janet.
Donna Tartt quotes: I loved her every minute of every day, heart and mind and soul and all of it, and it was getting late and I wanted the place never to close, I loved her every minute of every day, heart and mind and soul and all of it, and it was getting late and I wanted the place never to close, never.
Donna Tartt quotes: afterlife, the space between earth and not-earth, world and not-world, highly polished floors and glass-roof cathedral echoes and the whole anonymous afterlife, the space between earth and not-earth, world and not-world, highly polished floors and glass-roof cathedral echoes and the whole anonymous
Donna Tartt quotes: I could do what I had to. I'd done it before: gone blank, pushed forward. I could do what I had to. I'd done it before: gone blank, pushed forward.
Donna Tartt quotes: And though there was something pathetic about it - taking comfort in her left-behind things like a puppy snuggled in an old coat ... And though there was something pathetic about it - taking comfort in her left-behind things like a puppy snuggled in an old coat ...
Donna Tartt quotes: Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams. Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.
Donna Tartt quotes: It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.
Donna Tartt quotes: A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms, on the way to death. p136 A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms, on the way to death. p136
Donna Tartt quotes: What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue? What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?
Donna Tartt quotes: I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Donna Tartt quotes: Honestly can't remember much else about those years Honestly can't remember much else about those years
Donna Tartt quotes: In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
Donna Tartt quotes: A sunstruck instant that existed now and forever. A sunstruck instant that existed now and forever.
Donna Tartt quotes: You had to hand it to her: she was as cool as dammit. You had to hand it to her: she was as cool as dammit.
Donna Tartt quotes: It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat. It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat.
Donna Tartt quotes: She told me she loved him." "Well, girls always love assholes," said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. "Haven't you noticed? She told me she loved him." "Well, girls always love assholes," said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. "Haven't you noticed?
Donna Tartt quotes: Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead. Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead.
Donna Tartt quotes: It's our task to immerse ourselves ... while keeping eyes and hearts open ... It's our task to immerse ourselves ... while keeping eyes and hearts open ...
Donna Tartt quotes: Adrift in an air of charged significance, doubt struck me: was it a real memory, had he really spoken those words to me, or was I dreaming? Adrift in an air of charged significance, doubt struck me: was it a real memory, had he really spoken those words to me, or was I dreaming?
Donna Tartt quotes: It may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that's nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again It may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that's nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again
Donna Tartt quotes: Chlorotic, with a sunken chest, he smoked incessantly, wore cheap shirts that had grayed in the wash, drank endless cups of sugary tea. Chlorotic, with a sunken chest, he smoked incessantly, wore cheap shirts that had grayed in the wash, drank endless cups of sugary tea.
Donna Tartt quotes: It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing," he said. "You are like children. Afraid of the dark. It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing," he said. "You are like children. Afraid of the dark.
Donna Tartt quotes: Exactly that girl, not the prettiest, but the no-makeup and kind of ordinary-looking girl he'd chosen to be happy Exactly that girl, not the prettiest, but the no-makeup and kind of ordinary-looking girl he'd chosen to be happy
Donna Tartt quotes: You have an unusual equipment for fate, exercise with care!' You have an unusual equipment for fate, exercise with care!'

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