1,861 books
—
4,648 voters
Terri
https://www.goodreads.com/terricb
“But wait. For when the sun has disappeared, its dying gift, on leaving us, is to make all that it has touched more beautiful than it had been before, that we may know the sun was here, and hold its memory till we meet with it again.”
“Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life?”
― Heartburn
― Heartburn
“They'd both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that room or anyone who was standing on the grass beneath that telephone pole.”
― Ask Again, Yes
― Ask Again, Yes
“They can take our homes, our possessions. Our families. Our lives. They can drive us out, like they've driven us out before. They can humiliate us and dehumanize us. But they cannot take our thoughts. They cannot take our talents. They cannot take our knowledge, or our memories, or our minds. In music there is no bondage. Music is a door, and the soul escapes through the melody.”
― From Sand and Ash
― From Sand and Ash
“Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.”
― The Rose Garden
― The Rose Garden
“Helen is one of those people who never say anything, not because she’s shy but because she’s learned—in a way I always mean to—that if you don’t say anything, you make people far more nervous and self-conscious and careful around you than if you do. People like me, we just rush into the vacuum of silence people like Helen float around in; we blather and dither and yakyakyak, and people like Helen just sit there and smile into the wind.”
― Heartburn
― Heartburn
Clean Reads
— 6794 members
— last activity Dec 10, 2025 05:05AM
This is a group for people who love to read a good book, but don't want to have to put it down one chapter in because of things that, if it were a mov ...more
Clean,Non Religious-Reads
— 472 members
— last activity Nov 10, 2025 04:34AM
I wanted to create a group for like-minded readers... adults and young adults, who want to find books to read-'in all genres', that have no- to-only o ...more
Fairytales and Retellings
— 103 members
— last activity Jun 01, 2022 04:00AM
Do you love fairytales that are retold? If so, come join this group!
Once Upon a Time
— 76 members
— last activity May 23, 2012 08:55AM
For everyone who liked the 'Once Upon a Time' books. -Twists on Fairy Tales. ...more
Audiobooks
— 16137 members
— last activity 3 hours, 1 min ago
Audio & audiobooks are getting more and more popular for commuters & those wanting to squeeze in another book or two a month while doing other activit ...more
Terri’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Terri’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Terri
Lists liked by Terri



































































