Sign in with Facebook
78,878 books
—
293,709 voters
“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Marianne wanted her life to mean something then, she wanted to stop all violence committed by the strong against the weak, and she remembered a time several years ago when she had felt so intelligent and young and powerful that she almost could have achieved such a thing, and now she knew she wasn’t at all powerful, and she would live and die in a world of extreme violence against the innocent, and at most she could only help a few people. It was so much harder to reconcile herself to the idea of helping a few, like she would rather help no one than do something so small and feeble”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“My memory begins with my anger.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
serdl’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at serdl’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by serdl
Lists liked by serdl
