Marion

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

https://www.goodreads.com/marionterry

Loading...
Donna Tartt
“And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt
“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Carl Sagan
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Donna Tartt
“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Edmund de Waal
“How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was given to me. Because I bought it somewhere special. Because you will care for it. Because it will complicate your life. Because it will make someone else envious. There is no easy story in legacy. What is remembered and what is forgotten?”
Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

85538 Oprah's Book Club (Official) — 84788 members — last activity Dec 21, 2025 10:52PM
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more
182685 The Feminist Orchestra Bookclub — 4577 members — last activity Oct 17, 2025 06:48PM
Discover and recommend more feminist reads here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/96419.The_Feminist_Orchestra_Potential_Reading_List We're also o ...more
year in books
Barbara...
1,315 books | 47 friends

Ron Cha...
1,484 books | 5,001 friends

Karo
1,953 books | 84 friends

Niki
647 books | 26 friends

Mary
2,073 books | 40 friends

Cathy
2,784 books | 67 friends

Brenda
1,036 books | 137 friends

Aaron B...
829 books | 147 friends

More friends…
The Prince of Tides by Pat ConroyThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Best for Book Clubs
14,560 books — 18,416 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerSula by Toni MorrisonThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Oprah's Book Club Picks
124 books — 2,204 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Marion

Lists liked by Marion