2,159 books
—
2,695 voters
“What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.”
― Fingersmith
― Fingersmith
“Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's.”
―
―
“You smell,' she began, slowly and wonderingly, 'like -'
'Like a herring!'I said bitterly. My cheeks were hot now and very red; there were tears, almost, in my eyes. I think she saw my confusion and was sorry for it.
'Not at all like a herring,' she said gently.'But perhaps, maybe, like a mermaid...”
― Tipping the Velvet
'Like a herring!'I said bitterly. My cheeks were hot now and very red; there were tears, almost, in my eyes. I think she saw my confusion and was sorry for it.
'Not at all like a herring,' she said gently.'But perhaps, maybe, like a mermaid...”
― Tipping the Velvet
“When I see her,” I said, “it’s like - I don’t know what it’s like. It’s like I never saw anything at all before. It’s like I am filling up, like a wine-glass when it’s filled with wine. I watch the acts before her and they are like nothing - they’re like dust. Then she walks on the stage and - she is so pretty; and her suit is so nice; and her voice is so sweet… She makes me want to smile and weep, at once. She makes me sore, here.” I placed a hand upon my chest, upon the breast-bone. “I never saw a girl like her before. I never knew that there were girls like her…” My voice became a trembling whisper then, and I found that I could say no more. There was another silence. I opened my eyes and looked at Alice - and knew at once that I shouldn’t have spoken; that I should have been as dumb and as cunning with her as with the rest of them. There was a look on her face - it was not ambiguous at all now - a look of mingled shock, and nervousness, and embarrassment or shame. I had said too much. I felt as if my admiration for Kitty Butler had lit a beacon inside me, and opening my unguarded mouth had sent a shaft of light into the darkened room, illuminating all. I had said too much - but it was that, or say nothing.”
― Tipping the Velvet
― Tipping the Velvet
“clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl”
― Tipping the Velvet
― Tipping the Velvet
Aino’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Aino’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Poetry, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction
Polls voted on by Aino
Lists liked by Aino



































