“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Then the Kolokolo Bird said with a mournful cry, "Go to the banks of the great, grey-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.”
― The Elephant's Child
― The Elephant's Child
“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
Merricat’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Merricat’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Merricat
Lists liked by Merricat










































