The best Quotes by Donna Tartt

We don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

The Goldfinch

Heart Character

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

The Secret History

Books

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.

The Secret History

Beauty

When you feel homesick, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

The Secret History

Home

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.

The Goldfinch

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

The Goldfinch

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

The Secret History

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

The Goldfinch

That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.

The Goldfinch

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How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

Alabama Mississippi Louisiana

One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Mississippi

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Mississippi - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Mississippi

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty Appearance

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Love Beauty Valentine's Day

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Home Hogwarts

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

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