Bekko

“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

“Hely’s feelings didn’t run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

“When she went back to the telephone Hely’s breath, on the other end, was ragged and secretive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

“She did not care for children’s books in which the children grew up, as what “growing up” entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend