Heart Quotes by Donna Tartt

“...my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”

— Donna Tartt

“Things would have been terribly strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks,…

— Donna Tartt

“But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was…

— Donna Tartt

“Bleakly, Harriet gazed out into the antiseptic gloom. A weight lay upon her, and a darkness. She’d learned things she never knew,…

— Donna Tartt

“when what she needed was something concrete, some small final memory to slip its hand in hers and accompany her—sightless now, stumbling—through…

— Donna Tartt

“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the…

— Donna Tartt

“Her photographs, lining the hall outside my bedroom-- many different Pippas, at many different ages-- were a daily torment, always expected, always…

— Donna Tartt

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable…

— 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…

— 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…

— Donna Tartt

Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start,…

— Donna Tartt

That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death)…

— Donna Tartt

“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

She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love…

— Donna Tartt

“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health,…

— Donna Tartt

Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you…

— Donna Tartt