Want Quotes by Donna Tartt

11 Want quotes by Donna Tartt

Tartt’s prose often lingers on what characters covet, and these eleven brief snippets capture that tension. They provide a quick, atmospheric taste of her nuanced handling of desire.

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Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

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There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants…

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Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you…

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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…

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“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even…

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They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in…

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I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a…

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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…

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As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks -…

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“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the…

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“Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on…

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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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“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…

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