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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
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“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
― Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
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Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maria’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Children's, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Self help, and Young-adult
Polls voted on by Maria
Lists liked by Maria
