Toks

https://www.goodreads.com/newskeptic

Toks’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (238)
currently-reading‎ (1)
read‎ (1813)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
nah-b‎ (159)
first-of-a-series‎ (268)
romance‎ (442)
sff‎ (423)
2013‎ (172)
2014‎ (160)
2015‎ (130)

2019‎ (123)
2018‎ (116)
mystery-thriller‎ (109)
2017‎ (104)
2016‎ (103)
2012‎ (101)
2024‎ (99)
2025‎ (98)
2020‎ (84)
2010‎ (80)
2022‎ (68)

2023‎ (60)
historical‎ (59)
2011‎ (45)
2021‎ (40)
intellectual-loves‎ (27)
netgalley‎ (27)
awaiting-release‎ (23)
books-from-when-i-was-young‎ (22)
non-fiction‎ (22)
never-again‎ (17)
2026‎ (16)

read-in-school‎ (14)
signed-by-the-author‎ (7)
first-reads‎ (5)
physical-arc‎ (5)
short-stories‎ (5)
did-not-finish-2‎ (4)
edelweiss‎ (4)
favorites‎ (2)

Stats | More…

Toks is Currently Reading

Toks is currently reading

After the Shut Up Ring

by Cate C. Wells (Goodreads Author)

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

Feb 24, 2026 02:36PM

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

2706 likes

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self

499 likes

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”
― Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise

97 likes

“The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

25 likes

“From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

tags: breaking, heart, heartbreak

114 likes

More of Toks’s quotes…