YOU WILL FIND A WAY!!!! YOU WILL FIND A WAY . You Will Find A WAY ….. You WILL Find A Way . You Will

I love thinking about the goldfinch's religious symbolism

Theo's name meaning "God's gift"

Boris introducing Theo as "Fyodor" to people the night they meet again, name which means the same thing

Still, Boris rarely uses the name Theo, preferring nicknames instead

The Goldfinch being wrapped by Theo like "a Christmas present"

The Goldfinch returning on Christmas

The Goldfinch being described as something "immortal" as long there were people that loved it

Boris converting to different religions solely because of people

Like Islam because the people were nice to him

When he tattooed David's star because he wanted to work for a Jewish man

When he loves Dostoyevsky's philosophy on orthodoxy

at the same time, he can't manage to be a good man or follow through with any of them

like when he starts drinking and leaves Islam because of that

theo literally a few pages after kissing his best friend: i fucking hate my dog he makes me looks so gay

i don’t have anyone out here. nobody. nada.

new game plan called shield yourself at all times and never let anyone in . this will have no repercussions

“Sure—I did plenty of stupid things. Stupider than you! But me,” he said, toying with a cigarette, “I was trying to have fun and be happy. You wanted to be dead. It’s different.”

— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

it’s like you’re being ratatouilled but the rat is your shame

theres not much i can do but i can carry the umbrella. theres not much i can do but i can listen. theres not much i can do but i can steal you a bag of chips, some cough syrup when youre sick. theres not much i can do but i can put on some music. theres not much i can do but i can teach you a few phrases. theres not much i can do but i can put this dog on your chest and remind you that youre here and not there. theres not much i can do but i can hold you. theres not much i can do but i can kiss you goodbye. theres not much i can do but we can drive around for a while. theres not much i can do but i can walk back into your life after years and years apart and solve the biggest problem in your life

Maybe theo should have actually gotten into organized crime because every instinct he had in amsterdam turned out to be right in the end even though no one listened to him. he was the only person to notice the guy that escaped the restaurant when they first got the painting back, he was quick enough to kill martin AND his original plan of just tipping the interpol about where the painting was actually solved all their problems. Like guy who is consistently wrong about everything all the time has cassandra syndrome but only when it comes to commiting international crimes on purpose that’s theo decker for you

I'm so miserable that I can relate to a sad gay paranoid kid trying to convince himself he's not gay while getting high with his friend.