But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“After class, I wandered downstairs in a dream, my head spinning, but acutely, achingly conscious that I was alive and young on… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“We belonged together; there was a dream rightness and magic to it, inarguable; the thought of her flooded every corner of my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I blinked at her. My shades were down and the hall was dark and to me, half-drugged and reeling, she seemed not… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“IN THE NIGHT, I woke up wailing. The worst thing about the explosion was how I carried it in my body—the heat,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“…he said, in the most melancholy voice, ‘She’s hiding from me.’ He was dreaming, of course. I thought it was rather sweet.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase… — 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
