Donna Tartt Quote

If you didn’t take picture from museum, and Sascha didn’t steal it back, and I didn’t think of claiming reward—well, wouldn’t all those dozens of other paintings remain missing too? Forever maybe? Wrapped in brown paper? Still shut in that apartment? No one to look at them? Lonely and lost to the world? Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found? I think this goes more to the idea of ‘relentless irony’ than ‘divine providence.’ Yes—but why give it a name? Can’t they both be the same thing?