Lavori
Donna Tartt frasi celebri
“Le cose terribili e cruente sono a volte le più belle.”
Dio di illusioni
Frasi sul mondo di Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt Frasi e Citazioni
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch
The Secret History
The Goldfinch
Il piccolo amico
Donna Tartt: Frasi in inglese
“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
Origine: The Secret History
“though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
Origine: The Secret History
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
Origine: The Goldfinch
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
Variante: It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
Origine: The Secret History
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Origine: The Secret History
“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
Origine: The Goldfinch
“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
Origine: The Goldfinch
“Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.”
Origine: The Goldfinch
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
Origine: The Secret History
“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”
Origine: The Secret History
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
Origine: The Secret History
“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
Origine: The Secret History
“Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”
Origine: The Secret History
“Who was it that said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?”
Origine: The Goldfinch
“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”
Origine: The Secret History