#donna tartt

And I know I said earlier that he was perfect but he wasn’t perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote ...

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they’d had the same experience of looking up from their books ...

[...] And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars....

Leo Tolstoy Edgar Allan Poe Kahlil Gibran Charles Baudelaire Rainer Maria Rilke Donna Tartt Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

"We read to know we're not alone." - William Nicholson, Shadowlands...

Forgive me, for all the things I did, but mostly for the ones I did not....

When you feel homesick, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

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One likes to think there’s something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I’ve learned one thing in my short

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But when I think of you, it’s as if you’ve gone away to sea on a ship—out in a foreign brightness where there are no paths,

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But when I think of you, it’s as if you’ve gone away to sea on a ship—out in a foreign brightness where there are no paths,

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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But when I think of you, it’s as if you’ve gone away to sea on a ship—out in a foreign brightness where there are no paths,

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But when I think of you, it’s as if you’ve gone away to sea on a ship—out in a foreign brightness where there are no paths,

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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My longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at

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He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of

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