Aliyah Shere

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/behimint

Aliyah’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (26)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (171)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

precious‎ (51)
critical-reading‎ (25)

ya-favorites‎ (23)

Stats | More…

“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

tags: grief, healing, heartbreak, love, pain

197 likes

“It was exciting to meander and choose who you wanted to be, what aspects of yourself to accent and adorn. You were sending a distress signal, hoping someone would come to your rescue.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

tags: coming-of-age, memoir, self-discovery

7 likes

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
― Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

17 likes

“There's something about first love, isn't there? she said. It's untouchable to those who played no part in it. But it's the measure of all that follows.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

tags: love

88 likes

“Derrida remarked that friendship’s driver isn’t the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir

35 likes

More of Aliyah’s quotes…