Christian

Add friend

Christian’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (294)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (77)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
in-collection‎ (69)
drc-2023‎ (25)

american‎ (21)
british‎ (16)
drc-2024‎ (16)
australian‎ (13)
favourites‎ (12)
drc-2025‎ (11)

canadian‎ (4)
japanese‎ (3)
irish‎ (2)
scottish‎ (2)
sri-lankan‎ (2)
french‎ (1)

indian‎ (1)
omani‎ (1)
south-korean‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Christian’s Quotes

“I want to take myself apart into something else, and if I cannot do that, I want to destroy every part of it that could ever be used against me.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

43 likes

“I am learning that it is important to stop sometimes, and just have a drink and a gossip with friends, even as corpses start to pile up around you.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

2 likes

“Everything is about death, you see.’ ‘Well, recently, yes,’ agrees Joyce. ‘But surely not everything? That seems a bit much?’ ‘In essence,’ says Ibrahim. ‘Our existence only makes sense because of it; it provides meaning to our narrative. Our direction of travel is always towards it. Our behaviour is either because we fear it, or because we choose to deny it. We could drive past this spot once a year, every year, and neither the horse nor ourselves would get younger. Everything is death.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

4 likes

“Am I in love with her already? Perhaps. Or maybe I’m just confusing love with comfort, and I’m okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be? There are a lot of different kinds of love, and though I may not be able to tell them apart from each other, I appreciate all of them the same.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

38 likes

“So what do I do now?” “You climb the next mountain, of course.” “Oh, yeah, of course,” says Donna. Simple. “And what’s up the next mountain?” “Well, we don’t know, do we? It’s your mountain. No one’s ever climbed it before.” “And what if I don’t want to? What if I just want to go home and cry every night and pretend to everyone that everything’s okay?” “Then do that. Keep being scared, keep being lonely. And spend the next twenty years coming to see me, and I will keep telling you the same thing. Put your boots on and climb the next mountain. See what’s up there. Friends, promotions, babies. It’s your mountain.” “Will there be other mountains after that one?” “There will.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

26 likes

More of Christian’s quotes…