Donna Tartt Quotes
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Donna Tartt Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
But it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light.
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.
... 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 ...
Had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction.
There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.
Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260
Fact it seemed we had been doing things, such as stringing necklaces of rainbow-colored candy while the radio played Belle and Sebastian
The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn't really there.
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.
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.
She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief.
Worrying, Potter! Don't stand there and look so unhappy! If we lose, we win, and if we win, we win! Everything is good!
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 ...
They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright.
I am sorry, as well, to present such a sketchy and disappointing exegesis of what is in fact the central part of my story.
Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128
And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.
I see so little of you these days, Richard," he said. "I feel that you're becoming just a shadow in my life.
And if what they say is true
if every great painting is really a self-portrait
what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?
if every great painting is really a self-portrait
what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?
The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
What do you think about America?"
"Everyone always smiles so big! Well - most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.
"Everyone always smiles so big! Well - most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.
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
Well, she doesn't have anything to do with it, Richard, you're just like that guy in 'Dragnet' that always wants the facts.
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
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.
And sharp-faced, like Boris, but with an evil red-rimmed gaze and tiny, brownish sawteeth. He made me think of a rabid fox.
But the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial
All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.
Different cultures and all that, but it's true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.
You are, and you are very very gifted at all the aspects of the business I don't care to deal with, and you
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.
afterlife, the space between earth and not-earth, world and not-world, highly polished floors and glass-roof cathedral echoes and the whole anonymous
And though there was something pathetic about it - taking comfort in her left-behind things like a puppy snuggled in an old coat ...
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.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat.
She told me she loved him." "Well, girls always love assholes," said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. "Haven't you noticed?
Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead.
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?
It may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that's nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again
Chlorotic, with a sunken chest, he smoked incessantly, wore cheap shirts that had grayed in the wash, drank endless cups of sugary tea.
It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing," he said. "You are like children. Afraid of the dark.