“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“(to me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject) I” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I loved her every minute of every day, heart and mind and soul and all of it, and it was getting late… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Henry. Please." I was on the verge of tears. "What's the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? Don't you understand… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“How was it that a complex, a nervous and delicately calibrated mind like my own, was able to adjust itself perfectly after… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“That little guy, said Boris in the car on the way to Antwerp. You know the painter saw him-he wasn't painting that… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The group mind was such (private jokes and bemusement, everyone clustered round vacation videos on the iPhone) that it was hard to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“We belonged together; there was a dream rightness and magic to it, inarguable; the thought of her flooded every corner of my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“ . . .—we’d been there [at a restaurant] for hours, laughing over little things but being serious too, very grave, she… — 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
![“. . .—we’d been there [at a restaurant] for hours, laughing over little things but being serious too, very grave, she being both generous and receptive (this was another thing about her; she listened, her attention was dazzling–I never had the feeling that other people listened to me half as…” quote by Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f3a/donna-tartt-391_different-person_we-d-been-there-at-a-restaurant-for-hour_2009023.jpg)
