Sign in with Facebook
9,832 books
—
21,956 voters
“It's not just children who need heroes.”
―
―
“I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered-- about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Melting Stones
― Melting Stones
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disk rested on the high fields against the horizon, a great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We sprang to our feet, straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was. On some upland farm, a plough had been left standing in the field. The sun was sinking just behind it. Magnified across the distance by the horizontal light, it stood out against the sun, was exactly contained within the circle of the disk; the handles, the tongue, the share—black against the molten red. There it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
Taylor’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Taylor’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
384 books
|
9 friends
217 books
|
97 friends
280 books
|
129 friends
0 books
|
239 friends
120 books
|
126 friends
241 books
|
86 friends
146 books
|
23 friends
8 books
|
12 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Taylor
Lists liked by Taylor
