Dreams Quotes by Donna Tartt

10 Dreams quotes by Donna Tartt

Tartt’s meticulous, almost obsessive prose shines in this tiny collection. Each snippet offers a glimpse of her layered, contemplative voice on the subject of dreams, enough to spark curiosity.

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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

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“Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more…

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“After class, I wandered downstairs in a dream, my head spinning, but acutely, achingly conscious that I was alive and young on…

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“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and…

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“The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is…

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“…he said, in the most melancholy voice, ‘She’s hiding from me.’ He was dreaming, of course. I thought it was rather sweet.…

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“We belonged together; there was a dream rightness and magic to it, inarguable; the thought of her flooded every corner of my…

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“I blinked at her. My shades were down and the hall was dark and to me, half-drugged and reeling, she seemed not…

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“IN THE NIGHT, I woke up wailing. The worst thing about the explosion was how I carried it in my body—the heat,…

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“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase…

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

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“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…

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“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and…

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“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…

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“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…

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