“She kissed his scars, first the one cutting through his eyebrow, then the one cutting into his cheek, and finally the one cutting across his temple. With each contact, Thorn's eyes widened. His muscles, conversely, tightened.
"Fifty-six." He cleared his throat to make his voice less hoarse. Ophelia had never seen him so intimidated, despite his efforts not to show it.
"Thats the number of my scars."
She closed and then reopened her eyes. She felt it again, even more violently, this urgent call from inside her. "Show them to me.”
― La Mémoire de Babel
"Fifty-six." He cleared his throat to make his voice less hoarse. Ophelia had never seen him so intimidated, despite his efforts not to show it.
"Thats the number of my scars."
She closed and then reopened her eyes. She felt it again, even more violently, this urgent call from inside her. "Show them to me.”
― La Mémoire de Babel
“Two o’clock already! High time for a woman of letters who has turned out badly to go to sleep.”
― The Vagabond
― The Vagabond
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
― The Catcher In The Rye
― The Catcher In The Rye
“It's not fair that the word laughter is trapped inside slaughter.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“But then suppose you stepped into one of those rooms,’ he said, ‘and discovered another room within it. And inside that room, another room still. Rooms within rooms within rooms. Isn’t that how it might be, trying to learn Josie’s heart? No matter how long you wandered through those rooms, wouldn’t there always be others you’d not yet entered?”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
Sasha ☯️’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sasha ☯️’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Sasha ☯️
Lists liked by Sasha ☯️












































