“It's a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate...” — Donna Tartt Quote

“It's a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all 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 older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.”

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

“In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.”

“Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.”

“...spent the summer drowsing on his rooftop deck, smoking cigarettes, reading Proust, dreaming about death and indolence and beauty and time.”

“I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.”

“Nothing is immune to Time. Not even eternity.”

“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”

“Time will heal everything.”

“Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space”

“Chronocanine Envy:”

“Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives”