Sign in with Facebook
I’d once heard that we are nothing but our stories. Forget the blood and bones and genes and cells. They’re not what we are. We are, rather, our stories. We are an accumulation of experiences that we have fashioned into our own grand,
...more
· Flag
Mingjia Wang
“What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger one?”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don’t want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can’t turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“I joked to my wife as she drove me home that I felt as if I had been repeatedly sucked into the asshole of God.”
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
“It’s the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we’re choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everything’s decided in advance and we pretend we’re making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
Ethan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ethan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
377 books
|
4 friends
233 books
|
10 friends
331 books
|
5 friends
27 books
|
2 friends
41 books
|
2 friends
552 books
|
12 friends
571 books
|
27 friends
164 books
|
15 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Ethan
Lists liked by Ethan
