Sign in with Facebook
“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that awaited his exploration. He saw it as the great University library, to which new wings might be built, to which new books might be added and from which old ones might be withdrawn, while its true nature remained essentially unchanged.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“...And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent excuses , and purred so affectionately , that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“If I'd stopped to think about the strangeness of this, I might have fallen into old habits, old needs to piece together the puzzle. I decided that here was a puzzle that simply didn't matter to me. Here was something I didn't understand, a mystery I would leave behind me unsolved.”
―
―
“...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.”
― The Sacrificial Man
― The Sacrificial Man
“...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely odds, we still worry about being raped or murdered. We hear a sound in the night and think of burglars, not mice... It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door.”
― The Sacrificial Man
― The Sacrificial Man
The Hopefuls
— 3625 members
— last activity Nov 13, 2024 03:35AM
Just a place for Hopefuls to share books, friendship and love.
Tess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
645 books
|
4,715 friends
2,897 books
|
4,892 friends
228 books
|
27 friends
1,684 books
|
4,879 friends
810 books
|
1,441 friends
298 books
|
4,118 friends
1,105 books
|
6,146 friends
129 books
|
469 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
Polls voted on by Tess
Lists liked by Tess
