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“Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“That’s the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“It had been a conscious decision to pull free. It had taken everything I had to do it, like an animal gnawing a limb off to escape a trap. And somehow I had done it;”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
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“The problem (as I’d learned, repeatedly) was that thirty-six hours in, with your body in full revolt, and the remainder of your un-opiated life stretching out bleakly ahead of you like a prison corridor, you needed some fairly compelling reason to keep moving forward into darkness, rather than falling straight back into the gorgeous feather mattress you’d so foolishly abandoned.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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