NEVER Be Vulnerable. FLUSH Your Medication Down The Toilet. LIE When People Ask How You’re Doing. SUPPRESS

if you close the door, the night could last forever

romantic undertones brought to you by mike wheeler

An absence so heavy it becomes a presence

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

I think if Vecna went inside Mike’s head he would be too overwhelmed by his self-hatred, anxiety and PTSD that he would acquire human feelings and stop being a villain and that might be how they win.

[S]ometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illuminated in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.

Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch

I need y'all to listen to me possessed Will choking Mike to death and Mike tapping out "I love you" in Morse code on his wrist because he can't talk but he can't die without at least some part of Will knowing

lowkey all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey

I did not get brat summer drunk I got Lana del rey norman fucking rockwell

they need to invent somewhere where I belong