• 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.

    Donna Tartt: 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.
    Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.457, Hachette UK