Donna Tartt - Understand Quotes

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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.

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The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

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To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;

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