Amber

“It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing,” he said. “You are like children. Afraid of the dark.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I met her my first year of college, and was initially attracted to her because she seemed an intelligent, brooding malcontent like myself; but after about a month, during which time she’d firmly glued herself to me, I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History