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the secret history subtitles // beauty is terror. whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

the secret history subtitles // beauty is terror. whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

‘By the time you see this announcement,’ he says, ‘I will be dead.’ He goes on to say that it wasn’t a career in law enforcement that killed him but two packs of cigarettes a day. I saw this at about three o'clock in the morning, alone in my apartment, on a black-and-white set with lots of interference. White noise and snow. He seemed to be speaking directly at me, right out of the television set.  For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube? What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?’         - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules

The mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.

its because i read the secret history one time, happens to the best of us

- The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Julian, probably (via incorrecttshquotes)

He would be amiable, charming, chatting in his old distracted manner when, in the same manner and without missing a beat, he would lean back in his chair and come out with something so horrendous, so backhanded, so unanswerable, that I would vow not to forget it, and never to forgive him again. I broke that promise many times.

“In many ways she was as cool and competent as Henry; tough-minded and solitary in her habits, and in many ways as aloof.”

Donna Tartt: The Secret History (1992)

all of them, to me, seemed highly unapproachable

Donna Tartt, The Secret History (via henrydear)

in the hour of night, we take from ourselves we replace and reward it’s the balance of thoughts seeks to find affirmation, speaking in tongues take the words through you

from Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’