Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time
Donna TarttI love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
Donna TarttWhat if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?
Donna Tartt