117 ratings (3.91 avg)
30 reviews

William

Add friend

William’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (23)
currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (211)
to-read-not-owned‎ (172)

favorites‎ (8)

Stats | More…

William is Currently Reading

William is currently reading

One Piece, Volume 65: To Nothing

by Eiichiro Oda

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

May 24, 2025 02:34PM

“He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: shit-happens, words-of-wisdom

140 likes

“And I wouldn't feel any loss because I wouldn't ever have met her. I wondered suddenly if Terence did, if he knew on some level that he hadn't met his true love. And if he did, what did he feel? Mawkish sorrow, like one of his Victorian poems? Or a gnawing of some need unsatisfied? Or just a grayness to everything?”
― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

tags: love-quotes, true-love

0 likes

“He was bewildered at how quickly he had escaped his old life and fallen into this new one with strangely pleasant crazy people.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

26 likes

“Good. Well. Shit." Locke rubbed his gloved hands together. "I guess that's that. I'm all out of rhetorical flourishes.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: humor

43 likes

“That’s how luck works, lad.
You can bitch all you like about how things could have been more favorable for you, but rest assured things can always be worse.
Always.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

60 likes

More of William’s quotes…