Gretchen Tredo

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Gretchen.


Loading...
Voltaire
“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

Pat Conroy
“I taught Leah how to tell where we were in the Campo by using her sense of smell. The south side was glazed with the smell of slain fish and no amount of water or broom-work could ever eliminate the tincture of ammonia scenting that part of the piazza. The fish had written their names in those stones. But so had the young lambs and the coffee beans and torn arugula and the glistening tiers of citrus and the bread baking that produced a golden brown perfume from the great ovens. I whispered to Leah that a sense of smell was better than a yearbook for imprinting the delicate graffiti of time in the memory.”
Pat Conroy, Beach Music

Madeline Miller
“And I wanted to be able to listen, to digest the bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again.”
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

Hilary Mantel
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I hug them close; they're mine.”
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

Toni Morrison
“Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.”
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
tags: women

year in books
Kimi Mo...
79 books | 24 friends

Victor ...
224 books | 51 friends

Tyree P...
301 books | 45 friends





Polls voted on by Gretchen

Lists liked by Gretchen