Donna Tartt

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

— Donna Tartt

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and…

— Donna Tartt

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…

— Donna Tartt

“The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.”

— Donna Tartt

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with…

— Donna Tartt

“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon,…

— Donna Tartt

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

— Donna Tartt

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

“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to…

— Donna Tartt

“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no…

— Donna Tartt

“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same…

— Donna Tartt

“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves…

— Donna Tartt

“lights and moods and seasons was to see it a thousand different ways and to keep it shut in the dark—a thing…

— Donna Tartt

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

“Upon meeting Julian Morrow, one has the impression that he is a man of extraordinary sympathy and warmth. But what you call…

— Donna Tartt

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think,…

— Donna Tartt

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be…

— Donna Tartt

“It was as if I’d suffered a chemical change of the spirit: as if the acid balance of my psyche had shifted…

— Donna Tartt

“Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”

— Donna Tartt

“From my chair I had a clear view of Hobie’s Noah’s Ark: paired elephants, zebras, carven beasts marching two by two, clear…

— Donna Tartt

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its…

— Donna Tartt

“When she went back to the telephone Hely’s breath, on the other end, was ragged and secretive.”

— Donna Tartt

“It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in…

— Donna Tartt

“All those years I’d drifted along too glassy and insulated for any kind of reality to push through: a delirium which had…

— Donna Tartt

“He’s telling you that living things don’t last—it’s all temporary. Death in life.”

— Donna Tartt