Rebecca

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Rebecca.

https://www.goodreads.com/rebeccaraia

Yesteryear
Rebecca is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Book cover for Four Squares
“A day can be magical, but isn’t being alive a little horrific? When you wake up and see nothing but colorful smudge, you have the time to get your mind in order before you decide to start really looking. Before you get assaulted by the ...more
Loading...
Cheryl Strayed
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Lorrie Moore
“It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.”
Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore
“After four movies, three concerts, and two-and-a-half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events.”
Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

Jeffrey Eugenides
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Virginia Woolf
“I am rooted, but I flow.”
Virginia Woolf

4862 Books on the Nightstand — 6096 members — last activity 2 hours, 44 min ago
A group to discuss books and topics mentioned on Books on the Nightstand, a blog and podcast about books and reading.
758 The Rory Gilmore Book Club — 23614 members — last activity Apr 25, 2026 05:51PM
Reading is sexy! This group is for fans of literature and the Gilmore Girls. Join us for some witty banter, numerous pop culture references, and enlig ...more
72713 Around the USA in 52 Books — 96 members — last activity Feb 26, 2017 08:51AM
50 states, plus DC, plus one week for a road trip, train trip, or hike. Open to everyone, not just people living in the USA.
85538 Oprah's Book Club (Official) — 86416 members — last activity 12 hours, 0 min ago
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more
133641 Capitolina — 27 members — last activity Apr 26, 2014 12:40PM
A Capitolina é uma revista online independente para garotas adolescentes. www.revistacapitolina.com.br
More of Rebecca’s groups…
year in books
Jéssica...
576 books | 85 friends

Caroline
1,275 books | 148 friends

andré c...
2,607 books | 89 friends

Eduarda...
429 books | 60 friends

Cristina
698 books | 359 friends

Maria F...
933 books | 475 friends

Guille
2,118 books | 5,001 friends

Juliana...
2,103 books | 133 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Rebecca

Lists liked by Rebecca