“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
―
―
“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“We are the choices we make.”
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
“Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one”
―
―
Cody’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cody’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Cody
Lists liked by Cody





























