Quote by Donna Tartt Download Open image ““it felt adult, sophisticated, slightly alcoholic.”” — Donna Tartt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“How good it felt, to do some good, here and there. Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the… — Lisa Tawn Bergren Copy Share Image
“She was certainly rather drunk. Her eyes were fixed as if upon some far-off point. She seemed to be contemplating a future at once… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“The trouble with alcohol is that it makes you feel young and look old.” — David Leddick Copy Share Image
“I know now I never felt like a sophisticated adult because it just doesn’t come naturally to me. Maybe it never will. Maybe I… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
“The more knowledge I gain, the more like an adult I feel. I never got this chance to become an adult.” — Jaycee Dugard Copy Share Image
“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.” — Karen White Copy Share Image
“She was quietly lovely, unassumingly pretty, completely unaware that at some point between awkwardness and adulthood she had grown so appealing. And because she… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“There were two types of drinkers: those who drank to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to rid themselves of something.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The way adults could talk themselves into and out of feeling okay about something always amazed her.” — Elizabeth Stuckey-French 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
