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“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gone Girl
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gone Girl
“(…) when you don't know how to keep a man you lose everything, (…)”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment
“começou por nos explicar que distinguia muito bem entre a igreja e a fé. achava que a igreja era uma máfia de interesses. o silva da europa interrompia-o e dizia, uns filhos da mãe, a igreja é uma instituição pançuda que se deixou confortavelmente sentada ao lado de salazar. como sempre, dizia anísio, sempre do lado dos opressores porque toda a lógica da igreja é opressora, não conhecem outra linguagem.”
― A máquina de fazer espanhóis
― A máquina de fazer espanhóis
“Ser ou estar. Não, não é ser ou não ser, essa já existe, não confundir com a minha que acabei de inventar agora. Originalíssima. Se eu sou, não estou porque para que eu seja é preciso que eu não esteja. Mas não esteja onde? Muito boa a pergunta, não esteja onde. Fora de mim, é lógico. Para que eu seja assim inteira (essencial e essência) é preciso que não esteja em outro lugar senão em mim. Não me desintegro na natureza porque ela me toma e me devolve na íntegra: não há competição mas identificação dos elementos. Apenas isso. Na cidade me desintegro porque na cidade eu não sou, eu estou: estou competindo e como dentro das regras do jogo (milhares de regras) preciso competir bem, tenho consequentemente de estar bem para competir o melhor possível. Para competir o melhor possível acabo sacrificando o ser (próprio ou alheio, o que vem a dar no mesmo). Ora, se sacrifico o ser para apenas estar, acabo me desintegrando (essencial e essência) até a pulverização total.”
― As Meninas
― As Meninas
“Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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