Andreea Dumuta

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

https://www.goodreads.com/galactixy

My Brilliant Friend
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Fredrik Backman
“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

John Fowles
“If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”
John Fowles, The Magus

“We buy balloons, we let them go.”
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

John Fowles
“The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."

"You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
John Fowles, The Magus

Fredrik Backman
“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

year in books
Ally
2,106 books | 46 friends

Alexand...
366 books | 510 friends

Phi
Phi
496 books | 66 friends

Cosmin ...
1,415 books | 4,998 friends

Dariana
967 books | 121 friends

Vladimi...
3,069 books | 2,860 friends

Anna
5,829 books | 999 friends

Roxana
857 books | 112 friends

More friends…
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnWonder by R.J. Palacio
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,719 books — 14,315 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,368 books — 123,366 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Andreea

Lists liked by Andreea