#Donna tartt quotes

[nothingbutoranges444]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt; Chapter 2

Last night, I finished Chapter 2 of The Secret History, reading up to page 103.

Page 102 of The Secret History by Donna Tartt, with my favorite quote underlined in pink.

Reading Experience and Opinion:

I read yesterday in math class and at my friend's house, and I have to say I loved it. It is beautifully written and I really enjoy Tartt's writing style. The amount of exposition may feel unnecessary to some, but I love the immersion that she's creating with this dramatic build up. The tension of what will go wrong, of when will Bunny die, and how will it all play out, make this an enticing read even in the early pages.

Rating:

9/10

Summary:

Richard and his five classmates become closer and eventually Richard finds himself their friend. However, there are references to the fragility of these fond moments -- "But even that day, there on the porch, with Charles beside me and the smell of wood smoke in the air, it had the quality of a memory; there it was, before my eyes and yet too beautiful to believe" (Tartt pg 103). Richard reflects on how his peers would leave him out in small (yet obvious in hindsight) ways, as if they were hiding something. At the end of the chapter, Richard describes Bunny's laugh as haunting.

Favorite Quote:

"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, and the strip of highway visible—just barely-in the hills, beyond the trees." (Tartt pg102). This quote evokes feelings of nostalgia for a place you've never been, and opens the floor for discussion on what draws us to our 'homes' away from home.

[breezeoddity]

Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

[moon-lit-stars]

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[lenainwonderland]

- Donna Tartt

[joytri]

to live. to live forever.

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?”

— The Secret History, Donna Tartt

[bleeding-daydream]

[0bsessiv3s0ul]

"Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?"

[cataclysmictide]

In Another Life...

Warsh_Tippy and Zelda - Whatever, Dad/Unknown/A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook-Anna Kamienska/The 1 - Taylor Swift/ghost, zero, suitcase, and the moon - richard siken/Last Kiss - Taylor Swift/Unknown/rebecca malakai/Warsh_Tippy and Zelda - Whatever, Dad/everything everywhere all at once /Scott Street- Phoebe Bridgers/the 1 - Taylor Swift/c. t. salazar/unknown/unknown/ The Goldfinch-Donna Tartt/Warsh_Tippy and Zelda - Whatever, Dad

[yourgirlfoe]

Ya'll ever go, "fuckin' hell, I know this smell!" and it's the smell of a February evening from 2017 ?

[elysianmuses]

The love language of annotating a book

[nostalgicacademia]

“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

PD: Hi, I'm doing a survey on Aesthetics for my university research, anyone who knows what aesthetics are can answer and I'd be very happy!

Link to the survey

[academic-vampire]

𝕳𝖊𝖓𝖗𝖞 𝖂𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗

[averagepretentiousreader]

Life is short. Drink another coffee. Read another book. Listen to your favourite song again. Hug your mom. Laugh. Cry. Dance in the rain. Push your friend off a cliff because of a milkshake.

[quaintrelledragicorn]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[edwardian-masquerade]

"Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue."

-Donna Tartt, The Secret History