Sign in with Facebook
Mariana Dávila
https://www.goodreads.com/manzanita_zeta
“But that's the problem with the present, it's never the thing you're holding, only the thing you're watching, later, from a distance so great the memory might as well be a spill of stars outside a window at twilight.”
― Sharks in the Time of Saviors
― Sharks in the Time of Saviors
“No one truly touched by reality believes it worth honoring. What monster or dullard provisioned with Hollywood’s godly powers would reproduce life as it was, without revision or redemption?”
― Mercury Pictures Presents
― Mercury Pictures Presents
“Today we went over to your mother's friend's house for dinner. We'd asked you to be polite, so you said, "No more, please, it's horrible thank you.”
― Goodbye, Vitamin
― Goodbye, Vitamin
“The two impulses cannot be separated. The desire to have a life and the desire to disappear from it. The world is unlivable and yet we live in it every day.”
― The Third Hotel
― The Third Hotel
“It's strange, the importance we assign to handling things our loved ones have touched, or to revisiting historic scenes, of epic battles or first dates. To sleeping in Lizzie Borden's bedroom. These are attempts at folding time, at pinning one piece of fabric to another. But time doesn't work that way, you know. That's why you feel so empty afterward.”
― The Lightness
― The Lightness
Mariana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mariana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
388 books
|
32 friends
1,450 books
|
281 friends
192 books
|
49 friends
49 books
|
32 friends
1,618 books
|
117 friends
686 books
|
86 friends
792 books
|
241 friends
32 books
|
69 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Mariana
Lists liked by Mariana
