Goldfinch
Kindle Highlights: The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Highlights
as she spoke—eyes gliding curiously over my mother’s — location: 454 ^ref-16197
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? — location: 12314 ^ref-58249
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic. And—I would — location: 12469 ^ref-13005