Francesca Ribolla

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Francesca.


The Master and Ma...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Brothers Kara...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Margaret Atwood
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Sylvia Plath
“There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it. It is the same tantalizing sensation when you almost remember a name, but don't quite reach it. I can feel it when I think of human beings, of the hints of evolution suggested by the removal of wisdom teeth, the narrowing of the jaw no longer needed to chew such roughage as it was accustomed to; the gradual disappearance of hair from the human body; the adjustment of the human eye to the fine print, the swift, colored motion of the twentieth century. The feeling comes, vague and nebulous, when I consider the prolonged adolesence of our species; the rites of birth, marriage and death; all the primitive, barbaric ceremonies streamlined to modern times. Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best. Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Jeffrey Eugenides
“Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

Carlo Rovelli
“O gentlemen, the time of life is short . . . And if we live, we live to tread on kings. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (act 5, scene 2)”
Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

George R.R. Martin
“There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.”
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

30626 Goodreads Italia — 24873 members — last activity 1 hour, 6 min ago
Goodreads Italia è un luogo d'incontro per gli utenti italiani e italofoni della piattaforma Goodreads. Il gruppo, nato nel 2010 e in costante evoluz ...more
year in books
Caterin...
329 books | 4 friends

Angie D...
1,133 books | 2,496 friends





Polls voted on by Francesca

Lists liked by Francesca