Sign in with Facebook
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
―
―
“If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
Imen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Imen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Imen hasn't connected with her friends on Goodreads, yet.
Polls voted on by Imen
Lists liked by Imen
