"Why does everything you know, and everything you've learned, confirm you in what you believed before? Whereas in my case, what I grew up with, and what I thought I believed, is chipped away a little and a little, a fragment then a piece and then a piece more."
Thomas Cromwell is the OG Alexander Hamilton. Young scrappy and hungry. Not throwing away his shot. Etc.
pickI just finished The Goldfinch and was as captivated as everyone said I'd be. It got so good that I finished the last 200 pages in an afternoon.
Love this book for its sisterhood symbolism and female empowerment. It's also a great waiting-for-jury-duty read.
"If only there weren't so many other people in the world," he said lugubriously.
