Lauren McDaniel’s Reviews > The Goldfinch > Status Update

good grief bro might be a crazier Donna Tartt protagonist than Richard 😭

I was not expecting to be hit with “More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk-state I’d stopped myself from blurting the thing on the edge of my tongue, the thing I’d never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying it out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.”

if theo’s dad doesn’t spontaneously combust in the next few pages i’m going to puke i getting ragebaited so bad