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Showing posts with label Donna Tartt. Show all posts
"'And if beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?' 'To live,' said Camilla."

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The Secret History by Donna Tartt

"People gambled and golfed and planted gardens and traded stocks and had sex and bought new cars and practiced yoga and worked and prayed and redecorated their homes and gossiped about their neighbors and pored over restaurant reviews and founded charitable organizations and supported political candidates and attended the U.S. Open and dined and travelled and distracted themselves with all kinds of gadgets and devices...But in a strong light there was no good spin you could put on it. It was rotten top to bottom."

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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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