Quote by Donna Tartt Download Open image ““With mahogany in particular, it’s so tightly grained,”” — Donna Tartt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Well,” Waxillium said. “Perhaps I should begin by asking after your health.” “Perhaps you should,” Steris replied. “Er. Yes. How’s your health?” “Suitable.” “So… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“... I sit on the rug before the unlit grate and crack open the walnut. Out spills pale apricot muslin, frothing quantities of it.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor. I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“The grit in his tone felt like the perfect pumice stone, smoothing edges of me that had been rough for as long as I… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
“True craft isn’t in holding tight, but in release: letting wood reveal its wild grain, letting self dissolve into the hum beneath all things.” — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
“Flecked and blotched with the stains of decomposition, the linen would trace a rambling journey in which everything you love falls apart.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“She got under your skin like a sliver of wood that’s always a little bit raw and irritated, never working its way out again.” — J.S. Scott 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
