English: Good luck!
German: Break your neck and your leg!
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how to be a donna tartt character
wear old-fashioned clothes in all black or all white, odd glasses are a bonus
have weird nicknames with your friends and only refer to each other by them
intellectualism™ is important. make sure everyone knows that you love homer more than them
moral ambiguity is slightly more important. wanna scam people with fake antiques? wanna murder a friend? wanna steal your stepmom’s dog and drugs and run away across america? wanna semi-accidentally steal a painting and worry about it for years? wanna get into an ecstatic state and murder some random farmer? no time like the present
speak a few languages, preferably dead ones or russian
embrace your angst. amplify your angst. worry
consume copious amounts of substances. smoke, develop a drug problem, get sick drinking as often as possible
forget having actual romantic relationships with people, instead opt for romanticizing someone and obsessing over them and then confessing your love unsuccessfully or being totally gay for your best friend and then denying it later when they try to bring it up
Catherine “Kitty” Bennet: What’s the worst decision you’ve made while you were drunk?
Lydia Bennet: Don’t mean to brag but I don’t even need alcohol to make really bad decisions.
go be the pretentious aesthetic-obsessed substance-abusing scholar Donna Tartt wishes to see in the world