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“Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Who was it that said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“All those layers of silence upon silence.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“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 book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“The world won't come to me… so I must go to it.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History