Tabitha Rowland

“Disapproval always depends on other people - dead people, foreigners - doing the unacceptable action.”
― Jenny Diski, Skating to Antarctica

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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