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Starched shirts and suits fresh from the cleaners' went a long, long way toward hiding a multitude of sins. — Donna Tartt

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life — Donna Tartt

She was as cool as dammit. — Donna Tartt

Yet (moment by painful moment, breath by painful breath) one got through things. — Donna Tartt

This whole town is like a big Fuck You to Thoreau. — Donna Tartt

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us. — Donna Tartt

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 — Donna Tartt

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

At first I thought they were playing to an — Donna Tartt

the atmosphere it breathed was like the light-rinsed airiness of a wall opposite an open window. — Donna Tartt

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. — Donna Tartt

We'd have to devise a plan, probably a rather Pyrrhic and unsatisfactory one. — Donna Tartt

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. — Donna Tartt

Different cultures and all that, but it's true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative. — Donna Tartt

All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another. — Donna Tartt

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. — Donna Tartt

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial — Donna Tartt

Our large age difference made us shy with each other; there was a formality, a generational reserve; — Donna Tartt

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found? — Donna Tartt

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. — Donna Tartt

Barbour, who had come down to the curb with me, said smoothly: — Donna Tartt

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

We have art in order not to die from the truth. - NIETZSCHE — Donna Tartt

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

Other means) claiming to Hobie that I'd already sold the — Donna Tartt

Exactly that girl, not the prettiest, but the no-makeup and kind of ordinary-looking girl he'd chosen to be happy — Donna Tartt

and yet, whenever he started with the questions I froze stiff, as if I'd been pushed onstage in a play where I didn't know the lines. — Donna Tartt

Welty's instruction; that I'd had a concussion. That I hadn't — Donna Tartt

Of huddled anonymity like old black and white photos I'd seen of bank crashes and bread lines in the 1930s. — Donna Tartt

I could do what I had to. I'd done it before: gone blank, pushed forward. — Donna Tartt

He'd probably just crawl in the corner and starve. Like a hamster you forgot to feed. — Donna Tartt

She was the missing kingdom, the unbruised part of myself I'd lost with my mother. — Donna Tartt

(When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.) — Donna Tartt

Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most beautiful city in the history of earth! — Donna Tartt

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

They took the wrong ones! Mistake was made! Everything is unfair! Who do we complain to, in this shitty place? Who is in charge here?] — Donna Tartt

A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said. — Donna Tartt

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

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones. — Donna Tartt

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

Your silence is not acceptable. — Donna Tartt

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. — Donna Tartt

wheels caught and I was flung into ordinary — Donna Tartt

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. — Donna Tartt

Janet who said excellent! in answer to everything and drank coffee from a pink mug that said Janet. — Donna Tartt

He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness. — Donna Tartt

jeans jacket, catching him in a chokehold, pistol at — Donna Tartt

See?" said Boris, interrupting Vitya right in — Donna Tartt

No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal. — Donna Tartt

The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for 'dragonfly' and couldn't. — Donna Tartt

Well, a change of scenery may be good for you," said Hobie when I went down to see him before I left. "Even if the scene isn't what you'd choose. — Donna Tartt

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. — Donna Tartt

We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?" "To live," said Camilla. "To live forever, — Donna Tartt

Although, I do have to say, it was difficult to imagine him — Donna Tartt

The smells, the shadows, even the dappled pale trunks of the plane trees lifted my spirits — Donna Tartt

I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed. — Donna Tartt