Quote by Donna Tartt Download Open image ““An object—any object—was worth whatever you could get somebody to pay for it.”” — Donna Tartt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“it didn’t matter what the books said, what the experts said, what similar items at Christie’s had recently gone for. An object—any object—was worth… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“There’s a certain worth that can only be given to us by God. You see, if you think about it, worth has nothing to… — Cole Ryan Copy Share Image
“In the universe there are only a few absolutes of value; something is valuable because it can be eaten for nourishment or used as… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“It was understandable, then, that the worth of a person was not measured in the things he or she owned, but in the deeds… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
“But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“An object only receives its true value from the one who cares the most about it.” — Brianna J. Merrill 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
