Sign in with Facebook
“Dandelion! You’re asleep in the saddle!’ ‘I’m not asleep. I’m thinking creatively!”
― The Tower of Swallows
― The Tower of Swallows
“And you? Don't you have dreams now?'
'I do,' he said bitterly. 'But seldom since we crossed the Yaruga. And I remember nothing after waking. Something has ended in me, Cahir. Something has burned out. Something has ruptured in me . . .'
'Never mind, Geralt. I shall dream for both of us.”
― Wieża Jaskółki
'I do,' he said bitterly. 'But seldom since we crossed the Yaruga. And I remember nothing after waking. Something has ended in me, Cahir. Something has burned out. Something has ruptured in me . . .'
'Never mind, Geralt. I shall dream for both of us.”
― Wieża Jaskółki
“It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.”
― Wieża Jaskółki
― Wieża Jaskółki
“في بعض الأحيان كنت عندما أشرع في محاولة الكتابة ونظم أشعار قصيرة سرعان ما كنت أتراجع عن ذلك، إذ كان خوفي من إخراج ما بداخلي بأي شكلٍ كان وترددي الذي لا أملك له سبباً يمنعاني من الكتابة على الدوام. لكني تابعت الرسم فقط. لم أكن أشعر بأن الرسم هو طريقة أخرى للتنفيس عما في داخلي. كان يبدو لي عبارة عن وسيط لعكس ما أراه على الورق فقط. لكن عندما اكتشفت أنه ليس كذلك توقفت عن ممارسته أيضاً.”
― Kürk Mantolu Madonna
― Kürk Mantolu Madonna
“You just, like, hate yourself? You hate being yourself?"
"There's no self to hate. It's like, when I look into myself, there's no actual me—just a bunch of thoughts and behaviors and circumstances. And a lot of them just don't feel like they're mine. They're not things I want to think or do or whatever. And when I do look for the, like, Real Me, I never find it. It's like those nesting dolls, you know? The ones that are hollow, and then when you open them up, there's a smaller doll inside, and you keep opening hollow dolls until eventually you get to the smallest one, and it's solid all the way through. But with me, I don't think there is one that is solid. They just keep getting smaller.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
"There's no self to hate. It's like, when I look into myself, there's no actual me—just a bunch of thoughts and behaviors and circumstances. And a lot of them just don't feel like they're mine. They're not things I want to think or do or whatever. And when I do look for the, like, Real Me, I never find it. It's like those nesting dolls, you know? The ones that are hollow, and then when you open them up, there's a smaller doll inside, and you keep opening hollow dolls until eventually you get to the smallest one, and it's solid all the way through. But with me, I don't think there is one that is solid. They just keep getting smaller.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
Maryam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maryam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
186 books
|
132 friends
5,599 books
|
297 friends
198 books
|
88 friends
601 books
|
1,866 friends
632 books
|
2 friends
14 books
|
7 friends
1 book
|
39 friends
0 books
|
8 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Maryam
Lists liked by Maryam
