Reader

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Reader.


Loading...
William Shakespeare
“What's done cannot be undone.”
William Shakespeare , Macbeth

Sylvia Plath
“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
Sylvia Plath

Juvenal
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?)”
Juvenal

Sylvia Plath
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

William Shakespeare
“What's past is prologue.”
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
tags: past

year in books

Reader hasn't connected with their friends on Goodreads, yet.



Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Reader

Lists liked by Reader