Sign in with Facebook
345 books
—
186 voters
“There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland.”
― Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
― Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
“I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more...never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“Often, after extinguishing the oil lamp in our house on stilts, we would lie on our beds and smoke in the dark. Book titles poured from our lips, the mysterious and exotic names evoking unknown worlds. It was like Tibetan incense, where you need only say the name, Zang Xiang, to smell the subtle, refined fragrance and to see the joss sticks sweating beads of scented moisture which, in the lamplight, resemble drops of liquid gold.”
― Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
― Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
JanieY’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at JanieY’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
JanieY hasn't connected with their friends on Goodreads, yet.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by JanieY
Lists liked by JanieY