I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that’s not really there.
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Innocence
Hard to put things right. You don’t often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Character, Jealousy, Envy
isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Prejudice, Education, Tolerance
Love doesn’t conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Charity
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- Andre Norton American Science Fiction Writer
- Norman Mailer American Novelist, Journalist
- Isabel Allende Chilean Novelist
- Marilynne Robinson Novelist, Essayist
- Alice Walker American Novelist, Activist
- Anne Tyler American Novelist
- Lloyd Alexander American Writer
- Carol Shields Canadian Author, Academic
- Katherine Anne Porter American Writer
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