“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch
Source: The Goldfinch
“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”
— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch
Source: The Goldfinch
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