Still Haven't Gotten Over The Goldfinch

why did no one actually warn me how sad a little life will get

miss "it wont make me cry" was WRONG bcs tell me why i was sobbing on a bus yesterday while reading

Mr Keating.

Fucking.

Knew.

He knew full well that the anxious poet and the depressed theatre kid were unbelievably gay for each other.

God I’ll never get over these two-

Regulus Black’s lil black cat animagus gets the zoomies.

That’s it. Send tweet.

RIP Malcolm Irvine you would’ve loved Minecraft

The Secret History destroyed my life like what do you mean I can't drink wine and study classical literature and spend the nights in a countryside mansion with piano echoing through the dark halls and break through the confines of humanity in a bacchanal and commit a string of murders and try to escape but eventually kill myself in a blaze of glory, ultimately shattering the lives of the people around me? That I can't escape the cognitive mode of experience and transcend the accident of my moment of being? That I can't lose my self, lose it utterly? What do you mean I can't live without thinking?

You just know that when Katniss publishes her book Peeta has a stack on the bakery counter that he pushes every customer to buy.

“But Mr. Mellark I can’t read!” “Your mommy can read it to you!”

“Peeta I already have a copy,” “you can have two! It makes for a great harvest gift.”

“I’m not gonna buy mom’s book, dad” “but she’s your mother!” “I already have a copy!”

art calling patrick “firecracker” and patrick calling art “ice cube” send tweet

What’s hilarious but also kinda sad is scrolling through the secret history tag and seeing all the aesthetic moodboards and all that because the literal point of the book was warning against that.

Richard literally said his fatal flaw was ‘a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs’.

The whole point of the book (well, one of them) is to tell you about the dangers of ignoring things right in front of your eyes and instead only focusing on the ‘picturesque’, on the side that fits with the aesthetic you’ve assigned to certain people, or situations, or books, and not seeing the larger picture.

And this is exactly what people are doing to the book (not that i don’t love the moodboards), focusing on the aesthetic and vibes of it rather than the underlying messages and the events that occur, ignoring the warning signs because they ruin the way you see things.

Hey you've read A Little Life right

Could you please let me know in which part abd chaoter this line is from

"I weep because you cannot save people. You can only love them"

I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIND IT.

Also hi :D

hiii:3

so actually I didn’t find the quote in A Little Life, it turns out it’s from a different book by Anaïs Nin called Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love"

The full quote is quite lovely!!