All of the above.

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

— Donna Tartt

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

— Donna Tartt

“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

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

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

— Donna Tartt

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

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

“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