And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.


The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) (ed. Little, Brown, 2013) - ISBN: 9780316248679

Donna Tartt Quotes

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at ...

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at ...

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at ...

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at ...