Donna Tartt: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

“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;”

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

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

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

“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”

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

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

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

“I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.”

“All those layers of silence upon silence.”

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

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

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

“Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”

“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever”

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

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

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