Bunny Corcoran Quotes

“In fact, I can't think of much I'd like better than for him to step into the room right now, glasses fogged and smelling of damp wool, shaking the rain from his hair like an old dog and saying: 'Dickie, my boy, what you got for a thirsty old man to drink tonight?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fogs in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You know,' said Francis, on the way out, 'I once made the mistake of asking Bunny if he ever thought about Sin.'
'What did he say?' asked Camilla.
Francis snorted. 'He said "No, of course not. I'm not a Catholic.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Probably I'll be dead soon.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Bunny, for all his appearance of amiable, callous stability, was actually a wildly erratic character. There were any number of reasons for this, but primary among them was his complete inability to think about anything before he did it. 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, The Secret History

“I'll tell you what Classics are. Wars and homos.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History