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Donna Tartt Quotes
Birthday: | December 23, 1963 |
Educated At: | Bennington College |
Nationality: | American, United States Of America |
Occupations: | Fiction Writer, Novelist, Writer |
Total quotes: 68
Donna Tartt
BirthnameBirthday: December 23, 1963
Educated At: Bennington College
Nationality: American, United States Of America
Occupations: Fiction Writer, Novelist, Writer
Total quotes: 68
“But it’s so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness.”
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Losing things
“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.”
“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”
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The Axiom Of Equality, Fatalism
“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”
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first lines of books, Fatal Flaw
“How could the apartment have seemed so permanent and solid-looking when it was only a stage set, waiting to be struck and carried away by movers in uniform?”
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moving, Things Change
“All I had to do was sink into the blood-warm current and let myself spin away to the secret place where everything was all right: Pippa’s face pale in the dark.”
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Love Image As Escape
“While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.”
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first lines of books, Amsterdam
“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we understood the gravity of our situation.”
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first lines of books
“Aethereal harmonies, impersonal, piercing, like a radio signal from Paradise.”
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Perfect Music, Signals Inside Sound
“Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently.”
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Time, Defining Time
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