Sign in with Facebook
“Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy - is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.”
― Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
― Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
“Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”
― Angels & Demons
― Angels & Demons
“...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...”
― A Familiar Rain
― A Familiar Rain
“And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.”
― Icehenge
― Icehenge
“It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion
Coryn’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Coryn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Coryn hasn't connected with their friends on Goodreads, yet.
Polls voted on by Coryn
Lists liked by Coryn
