“She really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no less beautiful for that; beautiful now in a way that less excited my senses, than tore at my very heart.”
More from Donna Tartt
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
“But it’s so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness.”