Clockworkcrow

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“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

“You can't be deep without a surface”
― Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet

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