They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books wit — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books wit — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books wit — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books wit — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books wit — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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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, The Secret History
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