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The lamplight was eerie, and, standing there motionless in our bathrobes, sleepy, with shadows flickering all around, I — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen. — Procopius, The Secret History
Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed al — Donna Tartt
But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder c — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite another, and though once I — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
All of a sudden, images from every crime movie I'd ever seen began to pop into my mind—the windowless room, the harsh li — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listen — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of l — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars. — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
How quickly he fell — how soon it was over.
Asparagus is in season. — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that som — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
It was heart-shaking. Glorious. Torches, dizziness, singing. Wolves howling around us and a bull bellowing in the dark. — Donna Tartt
Occasionally a car swooshed by in the rain and its headlights would swing round momentarily and illuminate the room-the — Donna Tartt, The Secret History