“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.” Another book off my list for my Reading...

“There isn’t one kind of happiness, there’s all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the...

“If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb” “Killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have...

"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is...

“There are few words that are harder to explain than "loyalty." It's always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of...

"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is...

"Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It's only the ratios that change." " This novel is about a...

“You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as...

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” This is a story about Dorian Gray, a young,...

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” This book tells the story of Victor...

“He found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?” In this little gem of a novella we follow Bill...

“There is always something left to love.” This was a weird, memorable and exhausting read for me. "One Hundred Years of Solitude tells...

“Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was...

“We have been meek, all of us, and what has our meekness brought us? We have lost our land and ourselves. With meekness we accepted the...

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.” Notably controversial, this is an upsetting, tragic book with beautiful writing about...

"Why do we live so painfully in our fictions? Why do we suffer so, from the things we ourselves have invented? Do you understand it,...

"Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured". This is one of my favourite non-fiction books I've read so far. As an...

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more...

"If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them." "What matters in life is not whether we receive a...