Best Donna Tartt Sayings
- Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? Crack
- Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. Alarming
- Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to… All
- Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. Beautiful
- For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… Best
- I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. All
- The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the… Alone
- I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the… Able
- Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was… Ahead
- As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks - it seemed more… Bear
- It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else… All
- From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the… Astray
- There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics… Been
- Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you… Considered
- One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life,… Amor
- If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch… Bat
- It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall,… Blinking
- Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp… All
- Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale. Enough Scale
- ...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object. Grief
- Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way. Any
- But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of… Blooded
- In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. Essential
- The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. Been
- Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror. Beauty
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