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“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”

Donna Tartt book The Little Friend

Source: The Little Friend

“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 book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Variant: It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
Source: The Secret History

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”

Donna Tartt

“Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

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

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“… as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch