Ashley Merka

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

https://www.goodreads.com/ashleymerka

Deity
Ashley Merka is currently reading
by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Leviathan Wakes
Ashley Merka is currently reading
by James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
One Hundred Years...
Ashley Merka is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Reading for the 2nd time
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 116 of 417)
Feb 08, 2017 11:16AM

 
Loading...
Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

Ernest Hemingway
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway
“He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Stephen Chbosky
“Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"
because that was the name of his dog

And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and a gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
and read it to his aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
took all the kids to the zoo

And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
with tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the girl around the corner sent him a
Valentine signed with a row of X's

and he had to ask his father what the X's meant
And his father always tucked him in bed at night
And was always there to do it

Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Autumn"

because that was the name of the season
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new paint

And the kids told him
that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year his sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl around the corner laughed

when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And the kids told him why
his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father never tucked him in bed at night
And his father got mad
when he cried for him to do it.


Once on a paper torn from his notebook
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Innocence: A Question"
because that was the question about his girl
And that's what it was all about
And his professor gave him an A

and a strange steady look
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because he never showed her
That was the year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
of the Apostle's Creed went

And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her

but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly

That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem

And he called it "Absolutely Nothing"
Because that's what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn't think

he could reach the kitchen.”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Louisa May Alcott
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

year in books
Kat Simon
654 books | 73 friends

Sora
535 books | 57 friends

Lyra
328 books | 9 friends

Ruth
327 books | 4 friends

Ethanat...
115 books | 1 friend


Shiver by Maggie StiefvaterMagic Bites by Ilona AndrewsMoon Called by Patricia BriggsMagic Burns by Ilona AndrewsMagic Strikes by Ilona Andrews
Best Shapeshifter/Werewolf books
1,615 books — 2,084 voters




Polls voted on by Ashley

Lists liked by Ashley