Donna Tartt Quote

And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to say toyou, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should say it as urgentlyas if I were standing in the room with you. That life—whateverelse it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. ThatNature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean wehave to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not alwaysso glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway:wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keepingeyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we risefrom the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it isa glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.