#the goldfinch quote

[sloppy-biich]

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go” ⋆⭒˚.⋆

[lenainwonderland]

- Donna Tartt

[cataclysmictide]

In Another Life...

Warsh_Tippy and Zelda - Whatever, Dad/Unknown/A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook-Anna Kamienska/The 1 - Taylor Swift/ghost, zero, suitcase, and the moon - richard siken/Last Kiss - Taylor Swift/Unknown/rebecca malakai/Warsh_Tippy and Zelda - Whatever, Dad/everything everywhere all at once /Scott Street- Phoebe Bridgers/the 1 - Taylor Swift/c. t. salazar/unknown/unknown/ The Goldfinch-Donna Tartt/Warsh_Tippy and Zelda - Whatever, Dad

[curseyouperrytheplatypus]

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Apparently traumatised kids often fail to grow to normal height because all the energy goes to surviving and well no fucking wonder twinyards and Neil are so short

[smokefalls]

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

[luciferslilith7]

"I believe in poems as I do in haunted houses.We say someone must have died here."

Rosa Alacia,"Voice:An essay, from My other tongue."

@luciferslilith7

[dog-beast]

Imelda Goldfinch 573 - 624

[theartofperishingslowly]

When you love books like the secret history, Homer's illiad, the goldfinch, and crime and punishment, but the person u like can't even differentiate between your and you're.

[fleabagdraws]

richard every time he narrates about camilla: she’s like soooo pretty guys and also perfect and also looks like her brother. BUT LIKE i’m not gay. she just happens to have all his best features and is Also! a Girl! because i like Girls! right guys remember that i like girls haha. not charles who looks exactly like camilla or anything. totally not gay guys. i mean i, being more disinclined that way than not,

[stefisdoingthings]

353 / only you

[incorrectqsmp]

Jaiden: You all put aside everything and came all this way for me? How did you even get here so fast?

Ironmouse: Several traffic violations

Cellbit: Three counts of resisting arrest

Foolish: Roughly twelve cans of energy drinks

Roier: and also? That's not our car

[literaryvein-reblogs]

homesick

adjective /ˈhōmˌsik/ /ˈhəʊm.sɪk/

experiencing a longing for one's home during a period of absence from it

unhappy because of being away from home for a long period

related words & phrases: abject, be in bits, be out of sorts, bereft, bittersweet, blues, broken, brooding, bruised, careworn, chagrined, cheerlessly, choked up, crestfallen, deflated, dejected, demoralized, depressed, desolate, despondent, disaffected, disappointed, disconsolate, disenchanted, disgruntled, disheartened, disillusioned, dismal, dismayed, displeased, dissatisfied, distraught, distressed, doleful, dour, down, downcast, downhearted, dystopia, forlorn, frustrated, fussy, glum, grieving, grim, gutted, hapless, harrowed, heartbroken, heartsick, heavy-hearted, homesick, hurt, in distress, in pieces, inconsolable, injured, isolated, joyless, lacerated, lachrymose, lonely, lonesome, longing, lovelorn, lovesick, low-spirited, lugubrious, martyred, maudlin, melancholic, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, nostalgic, pained, pity party, regretful, repine, screwed up, self-pitying, sentimental, shaky, shattered, sick, sick at heart, someone's heart sinks to/into their boots, sorrowful, the doldrums, this vale of tears, traumatized, triggered, unfulfilled, unhappy, unmerry, unpleased, unslakable, unsmiling, upset, vale, wish you had never been born, wistful, woe, wounded, wretched

etymology: Earliest known use is from 1748, in Coll. Hymns from Hymn-book Moravian Brethren: Part III. Homesick is formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home (noun), sick (adj)

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.” ― Donna Tartt

“All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.” — Zora Neale Hurston

“It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.” ― Publius Ovidius Naso

“It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields…and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

Sources: 1 2 3

[divno]

'I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.'

-Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

[glorious-destruction]

you have to be at least a little bit gay to be a main character in a donna tartt novel

[thatlosertheo]

“When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change. Your descriptions of the desert—that oceanic, endless glare—are terrible but also very beautiful. Maybe there's something to be said for the rawness and emptiness of it all. The light of long ago is different from the light of today and yet here, in this house, I'm reminded of the past at every turn. But when I think of you, it's as if you've gone away to sea on a ship—out in a foreign brightness where there are no paths, only stars and sky.”