“She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.”
― Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
― Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know)....”
― Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
― Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
“I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!”
― Portnoy’s Complaint
― Portnoy’s Complaint
“Hiding from genocide inside a Jew's attic, thought Kugel, is like hiding from a lion inside a gazelle.”
― Hope: A Tragedy
― Hope: A Tragedy
Stav’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stav’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Stav
Lists liked by Stav




















