Tiny Goldfinch details that make me feel insane:
-Theo getting a glass of water when coming up with a lie to tell Hobie and remarking itās what his father always did
-Theo telling his mother off for talking to someone and her saying heās like his father and Theoās immediate guilt
-Theo obsessively studying as if he could scrub away the guilt and shame and disgust he felt towards himself for no reason he could identify
-Mrs Barbour saying goodbye to Theo and looking like she was forgetting to say smth
-Boris taking his fathers gold lighter and putting it into Theoās bag after he remarked on it once
-Theo and Tom cutting their palms, shaking hands and promising to be brothers 2 weeks before Tom betrayed him, leading to his motherās death vs Theo beating Boris bloody until his knuckles were split and Boris kissing them to let him know all was forgiven, weeks before Boris stole the goldfinch. Theo remembering this all right before Boris came back and he found out abt Kitsey and Tom
-The clock being one minute to midnight in the photo of Andy and Mr Barbour.
-Andyās innate almost prophetic fear of water. Being born with the knowledge of how he was going to die.
-Mrs Barbour inadvertently being the one to introduce Theo to drugs
-Theoās mother saying the moon is home and Boris telling Theo his name means moon along with the quote āhome is wherever I am. The center of my earth is youā
-Theoās mother calling him puppy and the story in Theoās suicide note of the injured puppy they couldnāt save
-Pippa being the āmorphine lollipopā
-Theoās terrifying dreams of his mother, trying to get home to her, only to realise he never could or it wasnāt actually her. Stuck haunting subway stations in his dreams never to return home again.
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