130 ratings (3.71 avg)
0 reviews

Lavon Jehlicka

Add friend

Lavon’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (74)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (131)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Lavon’s Quotes

“Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: defiant, one-of-them

287 likes

“His eyeballs look like he bought them in a joke shop.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son

5 likes

“The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing as science or literature, that dinosaurs never existed and man never went to the moon.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

tags: indoctrination, religion, religion-and-philoshophy, science-vs-religion

12 likes

“...and yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn

19 likes

“I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.”
― William Golding

tags: rereading

17 likes

More of Lavon’s quotes…