Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
―
―
“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
―
―
“También el amor se aprende”
― Cronaca di una morte annunciata
― Cronaca di una morte annunciata
“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims....”
― The picture of Dorian Gray;: A moral entertainment
― The picture of Dorian Gray;: A moral entertainment
Aidan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Aidan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
959 books
|
22 friends
870 books
|
9 friends
495 books
|
6 friends
276 books
|
58 friends
1 book
|
158 friends
1 book
|
35 friends
23 books
|
82 friends
52 books
|
7 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Aidan
Lists liked by Aidan