“But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Things would have been terribly strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Her photographs, lining the hall outside my bedroom-- many different Pippas, at many different ages-- were a daily torment, always expected, always… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“when what she needed was something concrete, some small final memory to slip its hand in hers and accompany her—sightless now, stumbling—through… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Bleakly, Harriet gazed out into the antiseptic gloom. A weight lay upon her, and a darkness. She’d learned things she never knew,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death)… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share
And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“lights and moods and seasons was to see it a thousand different ways and to keep it shut in the dark—a thing made of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“Upon meeting Julian Morrow, one has the impression that he is a man of extraordinary sympathy and warmth. But what you call his 'Asiatic… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
