Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
Donna TarttThe snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
Donna TarttBut it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work
Donna TarttIt'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.
Donna Tartt