315 ratings (4.02 avg)
4 reviews

Joshi

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/joshiweb

Joshi’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (0)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (318)

poetry‎ (6)

Stats | More…

Joshi’s Quotes

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: dreaming, happyiness

854 likes

“So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.”
― William Vollmann

117 likes

“Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.”
― Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

tags: charity, hebrew, justice, language, poor

80 likes

“For humans-trapped in biology-there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground like garbage. Time destroyed us all soon enough. But to destroy, or lose, a deathless thing-to break bonds stronger than the temporal-was a metaphysical uncoupling all its own, a startling new flavor of despair.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

42 likes