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2ef9b81 Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. the-secret-history Donna Tartt
6fa8d38 Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not. the-secret-history Donna Tartt
e9e383d Out in the country it was not uncommon to discover that she had slipped away, alone, out to the lake, maybe, or down to the cellar, where once I found her sitting in the big marooned sleigh, reading, her fur coat thrown over her knees. Things would have been terrible strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King, and Joker. the-secret-history queen Donna Tartt
bc58809 "We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain. "You know, Francis," I said. "What?" It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. "You know," I said, "I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that--" "Isn't that interesting," he said coolly. "I'm really not attracted to you, either." "But--" the-secret-history Donna Tartt
e4d0d90 Are you always up this early?' I asked him. 'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable. the-secret-history morning Donna Tartt
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
0a8a220 Asparagus is in season. murder the-secret-history Donna Tartt
3c5dc38 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. madness sanity the-secret-history suicide-note 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
d533e1c Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture. kindness julian-morrow the-secret-history elegance fake 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
214c1fe Occasionally a car swooshed by in the rain and its headlights would swing round momentarily and illuminate the room-the pool table, snowshoes on the wall and the rowing machine, the armchair in which Henry sat, motionless, a glass in his hand and the cigarette burning low between his fingers. For a moment his face, pale and watchful as a ghost's, would be caught in the headlights and then, very gradually, it would slide back into the dark. the-secret-history literature-quotes 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
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
5d34350 I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting, absorbed in their own concerns, had looked up out of the canvas and spoken to me. simile voyeur the-secret-history painting 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
6fea1d8 But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive. murder the-secret-history motive psychology 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
1d035c6 Sometimes when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over reality the-secret-history surreal 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
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