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Yanagihara creates some of the most realistic characters I've ever encountered on the page, then leverages all her talents and skill to completely annihilate all light in your heart.
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“She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“What the war did to dreamers.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“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.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
― 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
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