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“All those layers of silence upon silence.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“The world won't come to me… so I must go to it.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“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 kniha The Secret History

“They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“… my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles so large that they could not be plowed over with sheer force of momentum.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“… and yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest?”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn’t really there.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“He was a planet without an atmosphere.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Secret History

“Over 2,000 reptiles await you.”

Donna Tartt kniha The Goldfinch

“Your silence is not acceptable.”

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