Sign in with Facebook
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
―
―
“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
―
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
―
“Victra murmurs. “You’re the bookish one. Was it a man who said ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’?” A lancer brings her gauntlets. “It must have been—to imagine something so petty as scorn to be the utmost misery a woman could suffer. What, I wonder, would he make of a mother who has seen her husband sold like meat and her babe nailed to a tree?” She dons her gauntlets. “Perhaps: wrath, I am thee? They come for our children, Virginia.” She turns to me and cups my face with one hand. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them.”
― Light Bringer
― Light Bringer
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
―
―
“He is my favorite smell, my favorite sound, my favorite sight. He will never know how much I love him because he does not remember the day Darrow and I conceived him, or the months I carried him inside me, or the minute he came into the world, the moment he said his first word or took his first step, or made me laugh for the first time. I remember all those things, and all the things about them. Where the sun lay in the sky, how his father’s eyes sparkled, what I feared in those moments, what I hoped for his life to be. That season of life is a haze to him, but when I die and reflect on my life, I know I will still believe that season was the meaning of mine.”
― Light Bringer
― Light Bringer
monika’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at monika’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
89 books
|
16 friends
1,158 books
|
38 friends
1,139 books
|
56 friends
323 books
|
22 friends
741 books
|
15 friends
550 books
|
36 friends
363 books
|
51 friends
72 books
|
1 friend
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by monika
Lists liked by monika
