Sign in with Facebook
“In the buses all night she listened to transistor radios playing songs in the lower stretches of the Top 200, that would never become popular, whose melodies and lyrics would perish as if they had never been sung. A Mexican girl, trying to hear one of these through snarling static from the bus’s motor, hummed along as if she would remember it always, tracing post horns and hearts with a fingernail, in the haze of her breath on the window.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“I say to myself—sometimes, Clov, you must learn to suffer better than that if you want them to weary of punishing you—one day. I say to myself—sometimes, Clov, you must be better than that if you want them to let you go—one day. But I feel too old, and too far, to form new habits. Good, it'll never end, I'll never go.”
― Endgame
― Endgame
“Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only incidental: that what really keeps her where she is is magic, anonymous and malignant, visited on her from outside and for no reason at all. Having no apparatus except gut fear and female cunning to examine this formless magic, to understand how it works, how to measure its field strength, count its lines of force, she may fall back on superstition, or take up a useful hobby like embroidery, or go mad, or marry a disk jockey. If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic, what else?”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
Ivy’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ivy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
377 books
|
9 friends
345 books
|
16 friends
116 books
|
15 friends
146 books
|
12 friends
43 books
|
23 friends
41 books
|
6 friends
57 books
|
16 friends
106 books
|
19 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Ivy
Lists liked by Ivy
