Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Blue Sisters
by
In training, she had been taught the difference between reacting and responding. Responding was when you used the tools you’d been taught to clinically counter an attack according to your game plan; reacting was when you acted purely on
...more
“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real human life.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“I don’t believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Those burdens are what make medicine holy and wholly impossible: in taking up another’s cross, one must sometimes get crushed by the weight.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine
— 178617 members
— last activity 19 minutes ago
Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
5,739 books
|
83 friends
400 books
|
15 friends
435 books
|
32 friends
614 books
|
40 friends
279 books
|
31 friends
549 books
|
127 friends
156 books
|
25 friends
196 books
|
153 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Katie
Lists liked by Katie