Hannah

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


The Brontës
Hannah is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Milan Kundera
“The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he heard it) that she held on to life by a thread. Yes, she did want to live, life gave her great joy, but she also knew that her 'i want to live' was spun from the threads of a spiderweb. It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything-- love, convictions, faith, history-- no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides in the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.”
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Charlotte Brontë
“Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Milan Kundera
“She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. 'Pick me up,' is the message of a person who keeps falling.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Stephen Chbosky
“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Milan Kundera
“For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.”
Milan Kundera

year in books
 Six
888 books | 49 friends

Peter
131 books | 47 friends

Teresa
62 books | 119 friends

Elena M...
352 books | 140 friends

Aly
Aly
935 books | 83 friends

Charlot...
0 books | 156 friends

Nancy
56 books | 26 friends

Lita La...
1 book | 16 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Hannah

Lists liked by Hannah