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Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.
Donna Tartt
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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
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It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
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When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
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If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.
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I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
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Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
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All those layers of silence upon silence.
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...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
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