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“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
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“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
Donna Tartt
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For readers who, like me, love both of Donna Tartt's novels, The Secret History (1992) and The Little Friend (2002) and may be wondering what happened ...more
St Andrews University Book Club
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