“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“How were you supposed to explain this kind of thing? It seemed stupid to try. Even the memory was starting to seem… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“But even that day, there on the porch, with Charles beside me and the smell of wood smoke in the air, it… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And–since this willful amnesia had kept Robin's death from being translated into that sweet old family vernacular which smoothed even the bitterest… — 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
