The Goldfinch
By DonnaTart
"There was motion and stillness, stillness and modulation, and all the charge and magic of a great painting."
-page 721
"And isn't the whole point of things - beautiful things - that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another? Because I mean - mending old things, preserving them, looking after them - on some level there's no rational ground for it -"
-page 757
"Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?"
-page 758
"And I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality."
-page 760
"And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky - so the space where I exist, and to be quite frank I hope to die in, is exactly this middle ground: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime."
- page 770-771
"That maybe even if we're not always glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open."
-page 771
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