Famous Quotes by Donna Tartt

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

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

We are all the sum of our experiences, for better or worse.

If you love someone, you love them with everything you have. Even when it hurts.

We are the stories we tell ourselves.

The things you break end up being the things that break you.

What we love, we love with all our hearts, and we forget about all the other things.

I think it's the most human thing in the world to want things you can never have.

There is always something lost in the moment of transition, some innocent way of being that never comes back.

Some things you can’t protect yourself from, no matter how much you try.

It is easy to get carried away with the idea of something, but much harder to actually live it.

There are no real endings, only beginnings that have been and gone.

You can never go home again, because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

The truth is, the things that we’re most afraid of are the things that make us alive.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Nothing is ever as it seems. The world is always more complicated than we think.

The past is never really past. It’s only a memory that keeps coming back to haunt you.

People want things to be simple. The truth is never simple.

There is a world of difference between what we are and what we hope to be.

There are few things more than the searing realization that we are not the person we thought we were.

Time is a great healer, but it’s also a great revealer.