Gianna Cabochan

Add friend

Gianna’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (36)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (44)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Gianna’s Quotes

“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. Those are people who crossed an ocean to come to this country.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

7 likes

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

444 likes

“The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

tags: art

30 likes

“Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.”
― Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

29 likes

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. - Thorin”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: bilbo-baggins, middle-earth, the-hobbit, tolkien

98 likes

More of Gianna’s quotes…