#the secret history quotes

[edwardian-masquerade]

"Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue."

-Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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[readsbydes]

it's always "I love you" and never "cubitum eamus?"

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[karmaismyboyfriend-13]

"Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things — naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror — are too terrible to really ever grasp at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory, that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself — quite to one's surprise — in an entirely different world."

— The Secret History, Donna Tartt

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[waitingforthesunrise]

HELP I was thinking about the secret history saying ‘and what is beauty? terror.’ And Richard seeing Camilla and saying in all [his] life [he] had never seen anyone so maddeningly beautiful as she, and Ghost singing ‘your beauty never ever scared me…’

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[happysadvibes]

“She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.”

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992)

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[carpfishdiem]

“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

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[pictureofdoriaaaaaangay]

~ But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

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[divno]

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.

- The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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[sacrificialfae]

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. - The Secret History (1992)

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[cursemyexistences]

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.

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[romancefairy]

this is my version of the roman empire

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[daydreaming-effy]

This side of tumblr is for those people who read a book in high school and based their entire personality around it.

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[certainbookopinions]

“Morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.”

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[quotes-that-resonate-deeply]

“Anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale.”

- Henry Winter, The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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[happysadvibes]

“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992)

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[carpfishdiem]

"What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?"

- Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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