Quotes About The Goldfinch

#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. 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

#3. Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

Simone Weil

#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. 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

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

Donna Tartt

#7. His own eyes were soft and dreamy, cloudy as a trout pool in the rain.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.

Fuminori Nakamura

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Anything that's too safe is not action.

Elizabeth Streb

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

Lena Goldfinch

#13. The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Latin American republics were among the first to discover that it was relatively painless to default when a substantial proportion of bondholders were foreign.

Niall Ferguson

#15. I have never known a field as wild
as your heart.
-From "Love Poem: Centaur

Donika Kelly

#16. Things change ... things happen ... things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope.

Judy Blume

#17. The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.

Michael Gove

#18. Jubilation knows and Longing grants
only Lament still learns; with girlish hands
she counts the ancient evil through the nights.
But suddenly, unpracticed and askant,
she lifts one of our voice's constellations
Into the sky unclouded by her breath.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#19. He thought of the years before, the distant years with his parents on the farm, and of the deadness from which he had been miraculously revived.

John Edward Williams

#20. Apart from the machine, everything was shit. At

Elena Ferrante

#21. 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

#22. When I'm not training for a movie, it's more relaxed. I do a lot of running. Usually I'll run four to six miles about three times a week. You try to eat right, but you don't always.

Ryan Reynolds