Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its… — 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
“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
“I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers--hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks, shuffling to disembark--and I think of what Hobie… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“...the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking a lot about what Hobie said: about those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“...real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“White noise, impersonal roar. Deadening incandescence of the boarding terminals. But even these soul-free, sealed-off places are drenched with meaning, spangled and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers--hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks, shuffling to disembark--and I think of what Hobie… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“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
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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 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 on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
