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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
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
This whole town is like a big Fuck You to Thoreau.
— Donna Tartt
A truck shot past in a whine of spray.
— Donna Tartt
Beauty is terror.
— 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
All of the above.
— 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
To try to make some meaning out of all this seems
— Donna Tartt
Over 2,000 reptiles await you.
— Donna Tartt
jeans jacket, catching him in a chokehold, pistol at
— 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
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'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
— Donna Tartt
See?" said Boris, interrupting Vitya right in
— 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
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
When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
— 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
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
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
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
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
