your survival mechanism hasn’t changed much. Your brain still scans your environment looking for potential threats.
“On the windless days, when the maples have put forth their deep canopies, and the sky is wearing its new blue immensities, and the wind has dusted itself not an hour ago in some spicy field and hardly touches us as it passes by, what is it we do? We lie down and rest upon the generous earth. Very likely we fall asleep.”
― Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
― Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
“I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.”
― Einstein: His Life and Universe
― Einstein: His Life and Universe
“Only the truly anguished and distressed seriously consider ending their lives.”
― Suicide: The Forever Decision
― Suicide: The Forever Decision
“You better not have missed me just this morning,” I say. “You better miss me every moment we’re apart.”
― Speed Dreaming: Stories
― Speed Dreaming: Stories
Rodrigo’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rodrigo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Classics, Comics, Crime, Ebooks, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, and Suspense
Polls voted on by Rodrigo
Lists liked by Rodrigo





































