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[oblivionhotel]

The Kids Ain’t Alright

[yoonona]

The Goldfinch Characters: Boris Pavlikovsky

The reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.”

[yoonona]

 The Goldfinch Characters: Audrey Decker

The painter is giving you a secret message. He’s telling you that living things don’t last —it’s all temporary. Death in life.

“People die, sure,” my mother was saying. “But it’s so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars.