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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the… — 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
As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks -… — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“Upon meeting Julian Morrow, one has the impression that he is a man of extraordinary sympathy and warmth. But what you call his 'Asiatic… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
