--- title: "3 Next generation Quotes By Donna Tartt" description: "3 Next generation quotes by Donna Tartt. Plus more from Donna Tartt and more Next generation sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/donna-tartt-391_add_and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of_21483.jpg" --- > [And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of-people-who-have-loved/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/donna-tartt-391_add_and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of_21483.jpg) > [“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/and-in-the-midst-of-our-dying-as-we-rise-from-the-organic-and-sink/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/donna-tartt-391_death_and-in-the-midst-of-our-dying-as-we-rise_772763.jpg) > [“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair. But the painting has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/whatever-teaches-us-to-talk-to-ourselves-is-important-whatever-2/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/donna-tartt-391_artist_whatever-teaches-us-to-talk-to-ourselves_3088707.jpg) ## Other authors on Next generation - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/next-generation/barack-obama/) - [Steven Magee 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/next-generation/steven-magee/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-andy-stanley-13216.jpg) Andy Stanley 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/next-generation/andy-stanley/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-theodore-roosevelt-90083.jpg) Theodore Roosevelt 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/next-generation/theodore-roosevelt/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-aldous-huxley-10635.jpg) Aldous Huxley 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/next-generation/aldous-huxley/) ## More by Donna Tartt > [I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/i-hope-we-re-all-ready-to-leave-the-phenomenal-world-and-enter-into/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of-people-who-have-loved/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/and-the-flavor-of-pippa-s-kiss-bittersweet-and-strange-stayed-with-me/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [“The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/the-world-won-t-come-to-me-so-i-must-go-to-it/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/there-s-an-expectation-these-days-that-novels-like-any-other-consumer/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/a-month-or-two-before-i-would-have-been-appalled-at-the-idea-of-any/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/well-i-think-storytellers-have-always-found-murder-a-fascinating/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/always-remember-the-person-we-re-really-working-for-is-the-person-who/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/the-silence-between-us-was-happy-and-strange-connected-by-the-cord/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/it-is-a-terrible-thing-to-learn-as-a-child-that-one-is-a-being/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/you-didn-t-meet-many-people-who-moved-freely-through-the-world-with/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/maybe-that-s-what-s-waiting-for-us-at-the-end-of-the-journey-a/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/lights-and-moods-and-seasons-was-to-see-it-a-thousand-different-ways/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 make ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/a-great-sorrow-and-one-that-i-am-only-beginning-to-understand-we-don/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) > [“Upon meeting Julian Morrow, one has the impression that he is a man of extraordinary sympathy and warmth. But what you call his 'Asiatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/upon-meeting-julian-morrow-one-has-the-impression-that-he-is-a-man-of/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/next-generation/donna-tartt/#itemlist", "name": "3 Next generation Quotes By Donna Tartt", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Donna Tartt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of-people-who-have-loved/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/donna-tartt-391_add_and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of_21483.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/donna-tartt-391_add_and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of_21483.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/donna-tartt-391_add_and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of_21483.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and…” — Donna Tartt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch. 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