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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. — Donna Tartt

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. — Donna Tartt

But it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light. — Donna Tartt

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

X. IT WAS EIGHT-THIRTY IN the morning by the time I got to storage, with a sore jaw from grinding — Donna Tartt

She was as cool as dammit. — Donna Tartt

Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set. — 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

A truck shot past in a whine of spray. — 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

Beauty is terror. — 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

The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn't really there. — 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

All of the above. — Donna Tartt

Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment. — Donna Tartt

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. — Donna Tartt

That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it. — Donna Tartt

When she went back to the telephone Hely's breath, on the other end, was ragged and secretive. — Donna Tartt

First things first: find my — Donna Tartt

You should never get a person's name tattooed on you, because then you lose the person. I was too young to know that when I got the tattoo. — Donna Tartt

We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother's funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn't work. — Donna Tartt

Understand, by saying 'God,' I am merely using 'God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher. — Donna Tartt

Hard to believe that the world had ended and yet somehow these ridiculous activities kept grinding on. — Donna Tartt

and Mathilde still had — Donna Tartt

Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness. — Donna Tartt

The light of long ago is different from the light of today, and yet here, in this house, I'm reminded of the past at every turn. — Donna Tartt

The world won't come to me...so I must go to it. — Donna Tartt

a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence. — Donna Tartt

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

Basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence. — Donna Tartt

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. — Donna Tartt

Somehow the present had shrunk into a smaller and much less interesting place. — Donna Tartt

Life: vacant, vain, intolerable. What loyalty did I owe it? None whatsoever. — Donna Tartt

How strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed. — Donna Tartt

The center of my earth is you — Donna Tartt

In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself. — Donna Tartt

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

rain - was grappling for her wallet. "Maybe — Donna Tartt

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

He was a planet without an atmosphere. — 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

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy. — Donna Tartt

All those layers of silence upon silence. — 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

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility. — Donna Tartt

Picking up the phone to say hello, somehow I never had. Are you okay? — Donna Tartt

He was the kind of man people liked to entrust with their sadnesses. — Donna Tartt

To try to make some meaning out of all this seems — Donna Tartt

I thought they spoke Russian in the Ukraine." "Well, yes. Depends what part of Ukraine. They're not so different languages, the two. — Donna Tartt

Over 2,000 reptiles await you. — Donna Tartt

You have an unusual equipment for fate, exercise with care!' — 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

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

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — 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

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

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

wheels caught and I was flung into ordinary — Donna Tartt

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

Your silence is not acceptable. — 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

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

See?" said Boris, interrupting Vitya right in — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Or
to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win. — Donna Tartt

When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. — Donna Tartt

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

We had trench warfare in America way before World War I. Most people don't know that. — Donna Tartt

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence. — Donna Tartt

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

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

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

A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing. — Donna Tartt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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