626 Quotes by Donna Tartt

​While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.

...the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.

Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness.

Es muy ruso quejarse continuamente de lo mal que van las cosas. Si la vida te va bien, cállatelo. No vayas a tentar al diablo...

Se uma pintura realmente se nos entranha no coração e muda a maneira como vemos e pensamos e sentimos, não dizemos para connosco: "Oh, adoro esta pintura porque é universal." " Adoro esta pintura porque diz algo a toda a humanidade." Não é essa a razão por que quem quer que seja adora uma peça de arte.

Es una locura, pero sería feliz mirando los mismos seis cuadros el resto de mi vida. No se me ocurre una forma mejor de enloquecer.

En el negocio de las antigüedades no existía lo que se entiende por un precio «justo». El valor objetivo —el de catálogo— no significaba nada. Si aparecía un cliente despistado con dinero en la mano (como hacían la mayoría), no importaba lo que dijeran los expertos, lo que pusiera en los libros o lo que se hubiera pagado hacía poco en Christie’s por una pieza similar. Un objeto —cualquiera— valía lo que eras capaz de sacar por él.

But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying “Apparently” in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. “Um, I can’t find the can opener.” “Apparently.” “There’s going to be a lunar eclipse tonight.” “Apparently.” “Look, sparks are coming out of the wall socket.” “Apparently.

The description of shock and grief hot so close to home: "but sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illuminated in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead