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“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt

“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt

THE SECRET HISTORY + name meanings

“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.” - Plato

↳  “beauty is terror.                            whatever we call beautiful,                                                     we quiver before it.

ii. a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze.

the secret history + quotes, part two out of ?

In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory, or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party. Their names were Charles and Camilla Macaulay.

come celebrate 3.5k with me!

“But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”

julian smiled. “what a beautiful passage,” he said. “i never tire of it. but how is it that such a ghastly thing, a queen stabbing her husband in his bath, is so lovely to us?”

we think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. what is it?

… and on the foot of her bed was laid a half-played game of solitaire.

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“we don’t like to admit it,“ said julian, "but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than anything. all truly civilized people - the ancients no less than us - have civilized themselves through the willful repression of the old, animal self. are we, in this room, really very different from the greeks and the romans? obsessed with duty, piety, loyalty, sacrifice? all those things which are to modern tastes so chilling?”

for @tywinlcnnister. ♡

a bewitching gentle beauty, but ultimately a damaged and flawed person.