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“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, 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.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
Inês’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Inês’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
298 books
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33 friends
259 books
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86 friends
87 books
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71 books
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2,504 books
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86 friends
109 books
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47 books
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13 books
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