All the time, I’d known it was a mistake, keeping the painting, and still I’d kept it. No good could come of keeping it. It wasn’t even as if it had done me any good or given me any pleasure. Back in Las Vegas, I’d been able to look at it whenever I wanted, when I was sick or sleepy or sad, early morning and the middle of the night, autumn, summer, changing with weather and sun. It was one thing to see a painting in a museum but to see it in all those lights and moods and seasons was to see it a thousand different ways and to keep it shut in the dark—a thing made of light, that only lived in light — was wrong in more ways than I knew how to explain. More than wrong: it was crazy.
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Boris—leaning back on his hands, face turned to the sky— was singing to himself in Polish.
Wszystkie dzieci, nawet źle,
pogrążone są we śnie,
a Ty jedna tylko nie.
A-a-a, a-a-a,
byly sobie kotki dwa.
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The Goldfinch (2019) dir. John Crowley
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THE GOLDFINCH (2019)
Directed by John Crowley
Screenplay by Peter Straughan
Based on the novel by Donna Tartt
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Me! You have me!
Oakes Fegley and Finn Wolfhard as THEODORE DECKER and BORIS PAVLIKOVSKY in THE GOLDFINCH (2019) dir. John Crowley.
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