19 ratings (4.89 avg)
2 reviews

Shay Darling

Add friend

http://www.shaydarling.com

https://www.goodreads.com/shaydarlingxo

Shay’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (628)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (33)

bought-have-to-read‎ (7)

Stats | More…

“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are”
― Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance

tags: life-lessons

326 likes

“She can feel it down to her very core—this is her time. She will not only climb mountains—she will move them too.”
― Lang Leav, The Universe of Us (Volume 4)

43 likes

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

6308 likes

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

4989 likes

“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won't repeat the same mistakes, that we won't continue to do harm.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

130 likes

More of Shay’s quotes…

recent posts
Shay’s Groups

¡ POETRY ! — 22610 members — last activity Nov 19, 2025 04:25PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

a true crime book club. — 3248 members — last activity Aug 18, 2025 05:34PM
Welcome to the true crime book club.! Anyone can join! I always wanted to be part of a book club but never had enough confidence to actually attend an ...more

The Universe of Marissa Meyer — 416 members — last activity Nov 24, 2025 09:39AM
Lunartics! Renegades! Anarchists! The Heartless & the Cursed! Welcome to the Universe of Marissa Meyer! A fan-made group for other fans of this wonde ...more