87 ratings (3.77 avg)
32 reviews

Caty Holcomb

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/catyh20

Caty’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (290)
currently-reading‎ (3)

read‎ (87)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

literary-self-curriculum‎ (43)
nonfiction-neuro-sarahschauer-recs‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Caty is Currently Reading

Caty Holcomb is currently reading

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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

May 06, 2026 07:11PM

Caty Holcomb is currently reading

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

progress:

(page 21 of 671)
— Jan 28, 2026 08:58AM

Jan 28, 2026 08:46AM

Caty Holcomb is currently reading

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

by Elaine N. Aron

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

Jan 28, 2026 08:45AM

“Yimello,' said Bernard finally, breaking the silence.

'Gesundheit?' I asked.

'It's a name for one of the colors that's invisible to us. Yimello," said Bernard. "There could also be glowl and novaly and replitz."

'Yes.' I nodded, stunned the kid could actually string together so many words at once. 'And, uh, don't forget the beautiful grynn, the luminous dulloff, or the subtle winooze.'

Bernard's face lit up. He stood and started pacing the room, speaking quickly. 'Or salty, and insomnia, and carefree, and talkative, and lonely, and burnt, and punctual.'

'Some of my favorite colors,' I agreed, nodding. 'We could paint this room whisper. Or zigzag. Or maybe a nice shade of ignored and invisible.”
― Michelle Cuevas, Confessions of an Imaginary Friend

tags: burnt, carefree, colors, dulloff, feelings, gesundheit, glowl, grynn, ignored, insomnia, invisible, lonely, luminous, novaly, painting, punctual, replitz, salty, shade, talkative, winooze, yimello, zigzag

5 likes

“Everything is within your power,
and your power is within you.”
― Janice Trachtman, Catching What Life Throws at You: Inspiring True Stories of Healing

tags: change, change-life, change-quotes, change-the-world, change-your-life, change-your-mind, empowered, empowerment, encourae-yourself, encourage-yourself, encouragement, encouragement-and-attitude, encouragement-quotes, encouraging, encouraging-quotes, innate-wisdom, inner-strength, inspirational, inspiring, inspiring-quote, inspiring-quotes, law-of-attraction, motivating, motivational, motivational-quotes, personal-development, positive, positive-quote, positive-thinking, positivity, power, power-of-the-subconscious-mind, power-of-thoughts, power-of-will, power-of-women, powerful, powerful-quotes, powerful-women, powerful-words, self-empowered, self-empowerment, self-healing, self-help, self-help-inspiration, self-help-motivator, self-help-quote, self-help-quotes, self-improvement, spiritual, spiritual-quote, spiritual-wisdom, strength, strength-of-mind, strength-of-spirit, strong, strong-will, strong-willed, strong-woman, strong-women, subconscious, uplifting

131 likes

“It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

tags: courage, fear, life, live, love

62 likes

“I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

tags: life, life-lessons, life-quotes, motivation, motivational, nicole-lyons, passion, poetry-is-not-dead, poetry-quotes, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, strength, strong, strong-women, truth, unafraid

72 likes

“I guess that sometimes it just takes a long walk through the darkness, a long walk through the darkest shadows and corners of your soul to realize that those are a part of you as well, that you've created through your experiences and thoughts those parts within yourself and as much as you can choose to fear them and repress them, they will require your attention one day, they will need your care and acceptance before you can clean them away and turn the lights on. For you refuse to shine the light on something that is imperfect, because you fear judgement and rejection, but you can always choose to look towards the light as the only source of true beauty and love that can help you in the cleaning process. Healing, after a long time of struggle and mess is a complex process, but a necessary one nevertheless. We are so overwhelmed by the amount of work it requires that we so often choose to run away from the light, hide in our dark corner and hope that we will never be found, hope that we will never be seen, or desperately look outwards for that love and compassion that we can no longer find within ourselves, for our soul's light no longer shines as it used to. And sometimes we just find those people that can see the light beneath all that dust and darkness that's been pilled up, those kind of light workers that understand our broken souls and manage to pick us up and see the beauty within us, when we find it so hard to see it ourselves. Sometimes I get so tired of separation, of division, of groups and different religions and belief systems. Even if you do find the truth, once you've put it into words, books and rules it already becomes distorted by the mind into something that is no longer truth. So I no longer hope for understanding, no longer hope for the opinion of a judgemental mind, but I hope to find the words that touch the soul before the mind, I hope to find the touch that warms the heart from deep inside, and hope to find that far away abandoned part of me which I've left behind.”
― Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache