“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.”
― The Box Man
― The Box Man
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.”
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Brier’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brier’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Comics, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Manga, Memoir, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Poetry, Psychology, Science, and Science fiction
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