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“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles