Donna Tartt Quotes
For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.
I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.
The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
It's a terrible thing, what we did, ” said Francis abruptly. “I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It’s a shame. I feel bad about it.
I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.
Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.
And her laugh was enough to make you want to kick over what you were doing and follow her down the street.
People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.
Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.
Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.
But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way.
For humans—trapped in biology—there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground like garbage.
