Lukrécia > Lukrécia's Quotes

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“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, The Secret History

“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You amaze me," he said. "You think nothing exists if you can't see it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“What is unthinkable is undoable”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“And always, always, that same toast. Live forever.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“...the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless... I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I love you as much as I'm willing to love anybody.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six