John Devlin

“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

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

“A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

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