Goldfinch Quotes

#1. My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.

Nick Offerman

#2. Somewhere outside, a goldfinch was singing. Or maybe it was a song sparrow. My dad tried to teach me different kinds of bird songs, but I couldn't quite remember.

Jenny Han

#3. Life is catastrophe ... Everything is unfair. Who do we complain to in this shitty place? ... We all lose everything that matters in the end ... it's possible to play it with a kind of joy.p.767, The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

#4. What do you think about America?"
"Everyone always smiles so big! Well - most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

Donna Tartt

#5. He had an orange stain on his mouth from the prawns, the old jabberwock.

Donna Tartt

#6. The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

Richard Dawkins

#7. He wanted to see Mira well-fed and clothed. He wanted to get her back home, safe again, and with their family, where she was supposed to be.
And for Anna ... Jovanni couldn't seem to pull together the right words for what he wanted.
For Anna, he wanted everything.

Lena Goldfinch

#8. Something inside him shifted and came to rest, as if it had found its proper place. It was like one of his sister's wooden tumbling puzzles, like the satisfying click it made when all its many turning pieces were perfectly aligned.

Lena Goldfinch

#9. Taking care of people, therefore, is an essential way of taking care of business.

Leigh Branham

#10. There was a form of contentment in doing what she could and not worrying about the rest.

Lena Goldfinch

#11. As for the second notion, the idea that we could lose our freedom by succumbing to a wave of religious hysteria, I am sorry to say that I consider it possible. I hope that it is not probable. But there is a latent deep strain of religious fanaticism in this our culture; it is rooted in our history

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me.

U.S. Marine Corps

#13. A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan

#14. Clearing up your weaknesses is one of the primary reasons we're here.

Robin S. Sharma

#15. I made you all wet.

Sylvia Day

#16. Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking.
It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day
to deliver your message with authority.
You should write one.
Seth Godin

Seth Godin

#17. The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God has departed, and the worship of pleasure has taken its place. I am sorry to say that many of the Latter-day Saints are guilty of this. We should repent.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#18. I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.

Ann Aguirre

#19. For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone. I had an older sister, I think she was supposed to babysit me but she immediately ran across the street to her friend's house.

Kathleen Hanna

#20. Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets.

Lena Goldfinch

#21. I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#22. I love everybody that I work with, and we have so much fun.

Alessandra Ambrosio

#23. He sings so softly. Almost a whisper. Not like her father at all. Like the voices they give to the dolls, the men.

Emily Ruskovich

#24. I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious ... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Thomas Huxley