Donna Tartt Quote

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

art is risk made visible

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...

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

You haunt my days and dreams.

Everything started as nothing.