“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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
“...a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“With a beautiful girl I could have consoled myself that she was out of my league; that I was so haunted and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved… — 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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And the strange thing was: I knew that most people didn't see her as I did--if anything, found her a bit odd-looking… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It's commonplace to say that we 'love' a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Sometimes we… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle… — 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
