dawnisgone:

character posters: Henry Winter

“Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me that men had walked on the moon.”

fredwcasleys:

book covers redux ⇒ the secret history by donna tartt

harleuyquinn:

genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

thebookmarkedone:

in similarity less of lineament than of manner and bearing,  a correspondence of gesture which bounced and echoed between them so that a blink seemed to reverberate, moments later, in a twitch of the other’s eyelid.

thewincheters:

endless list of my favourite books | the secret history by donna tartt

Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls- which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn’t it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow old, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?

queermalfoy:

ya lit meme: [3/10] series or books → the secret history by donna tartt

“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.”

undomiel:

CHARACTER POSTERS - henry winter, the secret history

ibuzoo:

Apollo and Artemis reincarnated as Camilla and Charles Macauley AU for @metvmorqhoses

queermalfoy:

ya lit meme: [3/10] series or books → the secret history by donna tartt

“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.”

thecursedbooks:

book meme/ya lit meme : ten series or books [1/10] - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”  

borgialucrezia:

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us;

Donna Tartt

dawnisgone:

character posters: Francis Abernathy

“’Oh, God,’ Francis wailed.”

knigthleys:

BOOKS READ IN 2016: The Secret History (Donna Tartt)

❝I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.❞

hellenganseys:

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

chaolwestfeel:

//music to sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night// 

They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.

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