Nature Quotes by Donna Tartt

10 Nature quotes by Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt’s ten short quotations on nature provide a concise glimpse of her reflective style. They hint at the way she weaves landscape into narrative, making this a handy primer for fans of her atmospheric prose.

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“The center of my earth is you”

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“I see you are philosopher by nature.”

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“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the…

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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…

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“Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most…

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We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d…

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“despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment…

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“He’s telling you that living things don’t last—it’s all temporary. Death in life. That’s why they’re called natures mortes. Maybe you don’t…

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“I closed my eyes, overwhelmed with the wine, with her, with the impossibility of explaining it. “It's just—his last moments on earth,…

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

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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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“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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“lights and moods and seasons was to see it a thousand different ways and to keep it shut in the dark—a thing made of…

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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves…

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