Tabitha Rowland

“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

“Life is important. There is nothing to hold onto. A man that drinks is throwing his life away. Don't do it, hold on to your life. There is nothing else to hold on to...”
― Tennessee Williams

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

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood