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My Roman empire is the fact that we will never know the depths of The Secret History without Donna Tartt dropping a 10-hour explanation video where she decodes the reason for each and every line.

#the secret history

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"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

#the secret history

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the secret history (1992)

#the secret history

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“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”

— Donna Tartt

#the goldfinch

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somebody – one of those damned toddlers, I guess – got my favorite scarf off the bed and wrapped up part of a chicken leg in it. that nice silk one with the pattern of clocks on it. It’s just ruined.

#on dash

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Camilla Macauley

— the secret history, donna tartt.

#the secret history

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and she leaned close to it, one hand cupped around the flame and the other resting upon his wrist.

#on dash

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when henry asked the greek class why theyre excited about a snowfall in april as its just going to kill all the flowers, spring being a symbol for youth that dies as a consequence of the snow-induced maddening fbi investigation, leading to all of them losing their innocence just because of one treacherous winter

#the secret history

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henry vignettes

#the secret history

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something so sinister about edmund corcoran being nicknamed 'bunny' and the song that goes run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run

#the secrety history

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𝕮𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖆 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖞

#the secret history

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This bundle of flowers is for you!! 🌹🌸🌹🌸🌹 Feel free to share with other people that you like, have a good day!

this is lovely! thank you!

#answered

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justice for judy poovey

that’s it, thank you.

#the secret history

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Good doesn’t always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result form bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions. Scary idea! ANEURIN BARNARD as BORIS PAVLIKOVSK in THE GOLDFINCH (2019)

#the goldfinch

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If I were Richard Papen I would revisit the country house every now and then, and just VIOLENTLY SOB

#text

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𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖘 𝕬𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖞

#the secret history

[henry-marchbanks]

listening donna tartt read the secret history is just so memorizing.

#text