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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fff56d7 | All things fall and are built again. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3f24cd3 | Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 2a3432c | Although, I do have to say, it was difficult to imagine him | Donna Tartt | ||
| aaab410 | arid room--all | Donna Tartt | ||
| ff38139 | Few years ago, we were up north in Canada, in Alberta, this one-street town off the Pouce Coupe River? Dark the whole time, October to March, and fuck-all to do except read and listen to CBC radio. Had to drive fifty klicks to do our washing. Still --" he laughed - "loads better than Ukraine. Miami Beach, compared." | Donna Tartt | ||
| ae966a8 | But then, six months ago, my dad hauled me with him to this shaddy town in Alaska. Seward Peninsula, just below Arctic Circle? And then, middle of May--we flew to Fairbanks on a prop plane, and then we came here. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7fef97d | It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 530ca4c | since we'd both been through so many of the same things, she and I, and we were an awful lot alike--too much. And because we'd both been hurt so badly, so early on, in violent and irremediable ways that most people didn't, and couldn't, understand, wasn't it a bit... precarious? A matter of self-preservation? Two rickety and death-driven persons who would need to lean on each other quite so much? not to say she wasn't doing well at the mome.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| b18a3c2 | wheels caught and I was flung into ordinary | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6c27d6d | only now was it starting to make sense why Lady Macbeth could never scrub the blood off her hands, why it was still there after she washed it away. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 73d2412 | When we are strongest--who draws back? Most merry--who falls down laughing? When we are very bad,--what can they do to us? --ARTHUR RIMBAUD | Donna Tartt | ||
| a4538b0 | Pippa stessa e il gioco tra questi due opposti, l'amore e il non-amore, l'esserci e il non-esserci. Fotografie sul muro, un calzino arrotolato sotto il divano. Il momento in cui ho allungato la mano per toglierle qualcosa dai capelli e lei ha riso e si e scostata per evitare il mio tocco. E cosi come la musica e lo spazio tra le note, cosi come le stelle sono belle per il vuoto che le separa, cosi come il sole colpisce le gocce di pioggia d.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| b327770 | Il mondo non mi verra incontro, percio devo andargli incontro io. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 81bf4e8 | jeans jacket, catching him in a chokehold, pistol at | Donna Tartt | ||
| 57d1452 | Qualunque cosa ci insegni a parlare con noi stessi e importante qualunque cosa ci insegni a cullarci fino a uscire dalla disperazione. | Donna Tartt | ||
| caf9c27 | I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky. | Donna Tartt | ||
| f942e18 | A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1e5a479 | Are you going somewhere?" I said, regarding him timidly. The suit made him seem a different person, less melancholy and distracted, more capable--unlike the Hobie of my first visit, with his bedraggled aspect of an elegant but mistreated polar bear." | Donna Tartt | ||
| e411086 | When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.) | Donna Tartt | ||
| 4530421 | else it is--is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not | Donna Tartt | ||
| e68306a | Our large age difference made us shy with each other; there was a formality, a generational reserve; | Donna Tartt | ||
| 360794d | To try to make some meaning out of all this seems | Donna Tartt | ||
| 48fb9e4 | of huddled anonymity like old black and white photos I'd seen of bank crashes and bread lines in the 1930s. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3265e81 | Because--the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e245aad | What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue? | worth | Donna Tartt | |
| 2494d5f | passed--Snoopy, Ronald McDonald, | Donna Tartt | ||
| 449c207 | Beauty alters the grain of reality. | Donna Tartt | ||
| b6ecf58 | meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we're not | Donna Tartt | ||
| deaba6f | bailiwick | Donna Tartt | ||
| f80a765 | I've come to believe that there's no truth beyond | Donna Tartt | ||
| bb50c89 | An invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swarm untroubled in Baltic Waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world | Donna Tartt | ||
| be87401 | It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 00d0360 | See?" said Boris, interrupting Vitya right in" | Donna Tartt | ||
| 9ee3636 | it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name? | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3e553f7 | Estamos tan acostumbrados a disfrazarnos para los demas que al final nos disfrazamos para nosotros mismos. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD | Donna Tartt | ||
| 658c0dd | changing the plan at the last moment. "Oh, come on. The chicken can wait. Can't it? Sure it can." He was talking a mile a minute. "You can put the other thing back" | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6a8d639 | He's a funny one," said Ida. "Here's how he sound." She pursed her lips and, expertly, imitated the red-winged blackbird's call: not the liquid piping of the wood thrush, which dipped down into the dry | figurative-language nature sound | Donna Tartt | |
| 364e994 | As terrible as this is, I get it. 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 | Donna Tartt | ||
| 508ea1a | I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn't imagine. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6379a4c | And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky--so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime. And that's why I've chosen to write thes.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7833c55 | We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. | Donna Tartt | ||
| f9f54ec | Things would have been terribly strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King, and Joker. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 0a2c4e6 | I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary-- | Donna Tartt | ||
| 988547b | Porque- ja nao e incutido em nos constantemente, desde a infancia, um lugar-comum nao questionado na cultura? De William Blake a Lady Gaga, de Rousseau a Rumi, passando pela Tosca e pelo Sr. Rogers, e uma mensagem curiosamente uniforme, aceita de alto a baixo - quando em duvida, o que fazer? Como sabemos qual e a coisa certa para nos? Qualquer psiquiatra, qualquer orientador vocacional, qualquer princesa da Disney sabe a resposta: "seja voc.. | Donna Tartt |