The Goldfinch

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”

“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;”

"'The world won't come to me,' he used to say, 'so I must go to it.'"

Completely in love with this book, the emotions conveyed throughout this novel is so strong and impactful and really is a beautiful yet saddening story. A modern classic I thoroughly recommend to everyone <3