“between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“But though I knew just how lucky I was, still it was impossible to feel happy or even grateful for my good… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?… — 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
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
