donna-tartt

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f67003e	It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.	stars early-morning donna-tartt the-secret-history descriptive	Donna Tartt
2bb8a51	But one mustn't underestimate the primal appeal--to lose one's self, lose it utterly. And in losing it be born to the principle of continuous life, outside the prison of mortality and time.	primal donna-tartt the-secret-history lose-yourself	Donna Tartt
cb7e69d	But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite another, and though once I thought I had left that ravine forever on an April afternoon long ago, now I am not so sure. Now the searchers have departed, and life has grown quiet around me, I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time: up at the top by the muddy wheel-ruts in the new grass, where the sky is dark over the shivering apple blossoms and the first chill of the snow that will fall that night is already in the air.	donna-tartt the-secret-history haunted prologue trapped memory	Donna Tartt
6349dfe	The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.	donna-tartt the-secret-history memory	Donna Tartt
9500f91	The lamplight was eerie, and, standing there motionless in our bathrobes, sleepy, with shadows flickering all around, I felt as though I had woken from one dream into an even more remote one, some bizarre wartime bomb shelter of the unconscious.	dreams dream-within-a-dream donna-tartt the-secret-history descriptive eerie	Donna Tartt
046c335	I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man's float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality--talk, footsteps, slamming doors--which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.	donna-tartt the-secret-history figurative-language	Donna Tartt
6aebd1d	I was as depressed as I have ever been in my life.	donna-tartt the-secret-history	Donna Tartt
b494556	. The word itself had lost little of its power to startle and had, due to my ignorance of the physical place it occupied on the globe, assumed a peculiar life of its own. There was the harsh Ar at the beginning, which called up gold, idols, lost cities in the jungle, which in turn led to the hushed and sinister chamber of Gen, with the bright, interrogative Tina at the end--all nonsense, of course, but then it seemed in some muddled way that name itself, one of the few concrete facts available to me, might itself be a cryptogram or clue.	the-secret-place donna-tartt whimsical wordplay	Donna Tartt
38dfe1d	In fact, I can't think of much I'd like better than for him to step into the room right now, glasses fogged and smelling of damp wool, shaking the rain from his hair like an old dog and saying: 'Dickie, my boy, what you got for a thirsty old man to drink tonight?	humor life donna-tartt the-secret-history ocd horror	Donna Tartt
2cd9014	I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.	indelible donna-tartt the-secret-history haunted prologue guilt memory	Donna Tartt
bd2a2ac	Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still.	laughter donna-tartt the-secret-history haunting melancholy sad	Donna Tartt
389376a	I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu--you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student--but somehow despite my efforts, I am never able to blend myself in entirely and remain in some respects quite distinct from my surroundings, in the same way that a green chameleon remains a distinct entity from the leaf upon which it sits, no matter how perfectly it has approximated the the subtleties of the particular shade.	simile impostor donna-tartt the-secret-history	Donna Tartt
987aaa9	All of a sudden, images from every crime movie I'd ever seen began to pop into my mind--the windowless room, the harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived.	donna-tartt the-secret-history memory	Donna Tartt
73fe1e6	<> disse , guardandoci. <>	tragedy philosophy donna-tartt the-secret-history philosophy-quotes philosophy-of-life greek human-nature	Donna Tartt
0d6668d	La bellezza e raramente dolce o consolatoria. Quasi l'opposto. La vera bellezza e sempre un po' inquietante.	frasi donna-tartt libro narrativa	Donna Tartt
3c5d500	<> continuo Julian, <>	donna-tartt libro narrativa	Donna Tartt
75dba3c	There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty -unless she is wed to something more meaningful -is always superficial	donna-tartt the-secret-history superficial	Donna Tartt

It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.

stars early-morning donna-tartt the-secret-history descriptive

Donna Tartt

2bb8a51

But one mustn't underestimate the primal appeal--to lose one's self, lose it utterly. And in losing it be born to the principle of continuous life, outside the prison of mortality and time.

primal donna-tartt the-secret-history lose-yourself

Donna Tartt

cb7e69d

But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite another, and though once I thought I had left that ravine forever on an April afternoon long ago, now I am not so sure. Now the searchers have departed, and life has grown quiet around me, I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time: up at the top by the muddy wheel-ruts in the new grass, where the sky is dark over the shivering apple blossoms and the first chill of the snow that will fall that night is already in the air.

donna-tartt the-secret-history haunted prologue trapped memory

Donna Tartt

6349dfe

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

donna-tartt the-secret-history memory

Donna Tartt

9500f91

The lamplight was eerie, and, standing there motionless in our bathrobes, sleepy, with shadows flickering all around, I felt as though I had woken from one dream into an even more remote one, some bizarre wartime bomb shelter of the unconscious.

dreams dream-within-a-dream donna-tartt the-secret-history descriptive eerie

Donna Tartt

046c335

I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man's float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality--talk, footsteps, slamming doors--which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.

donna-tartt the-secret-history figurative-language

Donna Tartt

6aebd1d

I was as depressed as I have ever been in my life.

donna-tartt the-secret-history

Donna Tartt

b494556

. The word itself had lost little of its power to startle and had, due to my ignorance of the physical place it occupied on the globe, assumed a peculiar life of its own. There was the harsh Ar at the beginning, which called up gold, idols, lost cities in the jungle, which in turn led to the hushed and sinister chamber of Gen, with the bright, interrogative Tina at the end--all nonsense, of course, but then it seemed in some muddled way that name itself, one of the few concrete facts available to me, might itself be a cryptogram or clue.

the-secret-place donna-tartt whimsical wordplay

Donna Tartt

38dfe1d

In fact, I can't think of much I'd like better than for him to step into the room right now, glasses fogged and smelling of damp wool, shaking the rain from his hair like an old dog and saying: 'Dickie, my boy, what you got for a thirsty old man to drink tonight?

humor life donna-tartt the-secret-history ocd horror

Donna Tartt

2cd9014

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.

indelible donna-tartt the-secret-history haunted prologue guilt memory

Donna Tartt

bd2a2ac

Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still.

laughter donna-tartt the-secret-history haunting melancholy sad

Donna Tartt

389376a

I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu--you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student--but somehow despite my efforts, I am never able to blend myself in entirely and remain in some respects quite distinct from my surroundings, in the same way that a green chameleon remains a distinct entity from the leaf upon which it sits, no matter how perfectly it has approximated the the subtleties of the particular shade.

simile impostor donna-tartt the-secret-history

Donna Tartt

987aaa9

All of a sudden, images from every crime movie I'd ever seen began to pop into my mind--the windowless room, the harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived.

donna-tartt the-secret-history memory

Donna Tartt

73fe1e6

<> disse , guardandoci. <>

tragedy philosophy donna-tartt the-secret-history philosophy-quotes philosophy-of-life greek human-nature

Donna Tartt

0d6668d

La bellezza e raramente dolce o consolatoria. Quasi l'opposto. La vera bellezza e sempre un po' inquietante.

frasi donna-tartt libro narrativa

Donna Tartt

3c5d500

<> continuo Julian, <>

donna-tartt libro narrativa

Donna Tartt

75dba3c

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty -unless she is wed to something more meaningful -is always superficial

donna-tartt the-secret-history superficial

Donna Tartt