Quotes by : Donna Tartt

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right....

The chronological sorting of memories is an interesting business. Prior to this first weekend in the....

And beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact....

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves....

The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is....

Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee....

A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.

Well -- think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God?....

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.