“For humans-trapped in biology-there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years. I’d been shut up in my hotel for more than… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“At her tone, at once intimate and formal, a terrible sadness came over me, and when we looked at each other it… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I wrote these letters in the mornings before work, in the library, during my sessions of prolonged loitering in Commons, where I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very… — 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
“It was getting dark; soon it would be time for dinner. I finished my drink in a swallow. The idea of living… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Nihil sub sole novum [...] Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“not that I’d even been thinking about Cinzia until the moment before, but it had all seemed so solid, so immutable, the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“My heart - which, thrilled at my daring, had held its breath for a moment or two - began suddenly to beat… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“...it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair. But the painting has… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in… — 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
