626 Quotes by Donna Tartt

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

I really do work in solitude.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Beauty alters the grain of reality,

For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some outside party comes around and makes too much noise or pokes around the nest too intrusively - well, that's what it's like for me if I show work too early and I get a lot of editorial suggestions at the wrong time.

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.