Mara Moon

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“What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: desire, destruction, heart

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“Mi madre solía decir que la educación universitaria era un privilegio que no se podía permitir todo el mundo, pero se equivocaba: no era un privilegio. Era nuestro derecho. Teníamos derecho a un futuro.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

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“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“I'm sick of wasting time on things that don't matter.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

tags: wasting-time

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“And, in this staunch little portrait, it’s hard not to see the human in the finch. Dignified, vulnerable. One prisoner looking at another. But who knows what Fabritius intended? There’s not enough of his work left to even make a guess. The bird looks out at us. It’s not idealized or humanized. It’s very much a bird. Watchful, resigned. There’s no moral or story. There’s no resolution. There’s only a double abyss: between painter and imprisoned bird; between the record he left of the bird and our experience of it, centuries later.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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