429 ratings (3.49 avg)
29 reviews

Zen

Add friend

http://teaparties.tumblr.com

https://www.goodreads.com/bravery

Zen’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (87)
currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (551)
2013‎ (160)

2014‎ (17)
2015‎ (2)

Stats | More…

Zen is Currently Reading

Zen is currently reading

Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)

by Amitav Ghosh

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Zen said: " I need to come back to this book when I'm in the ~mood for it. ...more "

Feb 28, 2013 10:19AM · see review

Zen’s Quotes

“I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

17 likes

“A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

tags: my-kinda-ghost

5 likes

“These be the sort" — she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan — "These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to kings.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

3 likes

“I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don't feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait.”
― Joey Comeau, We all got it coming

10 likes

“And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

tags: alone, expectations, people, phantoms, voices

9 likes

More of Zen’s quotes…