The Goldfinch — Vocabulary
Donna Tartt
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"Charity work," I said, after a disoriented pause.†p.77.7alternate pages19 more

And yet a mid-level painting like this, in poor condition—even an anonymous work —is worth more than a masterpiece, that's the irony of it, worth more to me, anyway.p.578.5alternate pages10 more

He was larger and more robust than Platt, with unBarbour like hair of a darker, cardboard-colored blond and a very unBarbour like smile on him as well—eager and bright with no irony about it.p.465.9alternate pages10 more

…cheery dull world of good citizenship, where persons of different ethnicities all participated happily in their communities and inner-city kids stood around their housing project with a watering can, caring for a potted tree with branches illustrating the different branches of government, Boris had drawn daggers with his name on them, roses and hearts surrounding Kotku's initials, and a set of spying eyes, peeping slyly to one side, above a partially filled out sample test: Why does…p.558.5alternate pages4 more

Sometimes, to look occupied, I turned through old volumes of Fullmetal Alchemist or an illustrated H. G. Wells he had in his room, but even the pictures were more than I could absorb.†p.87.1alternate pages4 more

"No, not really," I said curtly.†p.148.6alternate pages14 more

It wasn't a time when Xandra normally came home, but her schedule was erratic sometimes and she'd surprised us before.†p.339.4alternate pages9 more

Resolutely I stared at the television.†p.89.2alternate pages10 more

Goldie said something sharp-sounding in Spanish to Marco V, who shrugged blandly and headed back into the package room.†p.212.6alternate pages12 more

To present myself at the consulate (or whatever) for a round of interviews and paperwork was asking for far more trouble than I needed.†p.707.1alternate pages12 more

"No thanks," I said, conscious of Mrs. Vogel's gaze boring into me, cold fraudulent smile, eyes like agate chips in her smooth, aging-milkmaid face.†p.459.6alternate pages10 more

Hobie was amiably silent, reaching for his wine glass without taking his eyes off me.†p.205.5alternate pages9 more

Not that I hadn't had a few lapses—unpredictable glides where things flashed out of control for a few eerie blinks like an ice-skid on a bridge and I saw just how badly things could go, how quick.p.472.6alternate pages1 more

So we're talking about a time lapse of forty minutes to an hour and a half after the initial explosion.p.107.1alternate pages1 more

I found myself blinking up in the late afternoon glare at a very tall, very very tanned, very thin man, of indeterminate age.†p.310.5alternate pages4 more

As it was, she died when I was a kid; and though everything that's happened to me since then is thoroughly my own fault, still when I lost her I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.†p.7.5alternate pages3 more

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky —so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.p.771.1alternate pages2 more

Though there were several movies we both would have liked, I'd chosen a matinee at the Boris Karloff film festival: The Body Snatcher.†p.192.2alternate pages3 more

And don't worry, I'll go with you to see your solicitor, it'll all be fine.p.379.9alternate pages1 more

Dialing the number, I tried to tell myself she probably wouldn't pick up (so many solicitors and bill collectors phoned us, all the time, that she seldom took calls from numbers she didn't recognize).p.367.8alternate pages1 more