And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.
Donna TarttThere is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial
Donna TarttClearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure whatโapart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.
Donna TarttDoes such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
Donna TarttWe looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason Iโd liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment Iโd met him was that he was never afraid. You didnโt meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call โthe Planet of Earth.
Donna Tartt