Donna Tartt Quote

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The...

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.