Donna Tartt Quotes

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

You know what the best thing about morning ski trips are? McDonald's!

I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains. I went to Ruapehu and for the first time I saw snow. I had never seen snow before and for 10 days the group of us had a marvellous time.

That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.

At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!