Donna Tartt citations

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“Mais, vrai, j’ai trop pleuré! Les aubes sont navrantes.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“Elle ne s'intéressait pas aux livres dans lesquels les enfants grandissaient, car (dans la vie comme en littérature) ce processus entrainait un affaiblissement accéléré et inexplicable du caractère; de façon totalement inattendue, les héros et les héroïnes renonçaient à leurs aventures pour un amour insipide, se mariaient et fondaient une famille, et, en général, se comportaient comme un troupeau de vaches.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Petit Copain

“All those layers of silence upon silence.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“The world won't come to me… so I must go to it.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“… my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles so large that they could not be plowed over with sheer force of momentum.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“… and yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest?”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn’t really there.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“He was a planet without an atmosphere.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“The 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 Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

“Over 2,000 reptiles await you.”

Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

“Your silence is not acceptable.”

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