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Not Quite Dead Yet

by Holly Jackson (Goodreads Author)

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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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