Tina

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


Middlesex
Tina is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Margaret Atwood
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

Siddhartha Mukherjee
“The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize chaos. Life is designed to combat these forces. We slow down reactions, concentrate matter, and organize chemicals into compartments; we sort laundry on Wednesdays. "It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe," James Gleick wrote. We live in the loopholes of natural laws, seeking extensions, exceptions and excuses. The laws of nature still mark the outer boundaries of permissibility - but life, in all its idiosyncratic, mad weirdness, flourishes by reading between the lines.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee
“If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for beauty." If we define "intelligence" as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a "gene for intelligence." The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Madeline Miller
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

year in books
☆ Annie ☆
628 books | 236 friends

Carter
383 books | 135 friends

Bonita
1,562 books | 62 friends

Stephan...
119 books | 9 friends

Roxy Bauer
252 books | 16 friends

Jeff
495 books | 29 friends

Ellen
978 books | 213 friends

Rena
40 books | 102 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Tina

Lists liked by Tina