I Am So Emotional Over The Goldfinch…like So So Emotional..but I Have To Do Homework!!!!

“boris seizing my hand, bloody at the knuckles where i’d punched him on the playground, and pressing it to his own bloodied mouth”

Why do you make me cry?

just googled my symptoms and it turns out it was boris i missed, the whole impulsive mess of him: gloomy, reckless, hot-tempered, appallingly thoughtless. boris pale and pasty, with his shoplifted apples and his russian-language novels, gnawed-down fingernails and shoelaces dragging in the dust. boris - budding alcoholic, fluent curser in four languages - who snatched food from my plate when he felt like it and nodded off drunk on the floor, face red like he’d been slapped. 

[said very pleasantly] i see you have mischaracterised my blorbo. that's okay. that's fine. everyone interprets things differently. i'm exploding you in my mind with the power of 9754685 suns btw

Goldfinch on Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch

More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I’d stopped myself from blurting the thing on the edge of my tongue, the thing I’d never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying it out loud to him in the street—which was, of course, I love you.

remember what’s really truly important in life : local bookstore

Hobie: such a natural talent for sales! such success! well done!

Theo, fully coked up, getting ready to sell the 5th knock-off Sheraton sofa that week:

if you close the door, the night could last forever

Characters in love with their best friend played by finn wolfhard cinematic universe

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