3 Name: KoffeeBeans !yrJ4WEz//. : 2025-07-15 17:01 ID:o87bNw31 [Del]
Along with the titles, I'll add some quotes I like from each of these books.
A Little Life:
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
The Song of Achilles:
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
"He is worth more to you perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend, and brother. So which life is more important?"
If We Were Villains:
“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
“Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.”
“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
“Which of us could say we were more sinned against than sinning? We were so easily manipulated—confusion made a masterpiece of us.”
Kafka on the Shore:
“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
“It isn't a question of intelligence. I'm not all that bright, I just have my own way of thinking. That's why people get disgusted with me. They accuse me of always bringing up things that are better left alone. If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you.”
“You've got to look at it this way: that this is war. You're a soldier, and you have to make a decision. Either I kill the cats or you kill me. One or the other. You need to make a choice right here and now. This might seem an outrageous choice, but consider this: most choices we make in life are equally outrageous.”
4 Name: Longya : 2025-07-31 19:29 ID:JuiXprHb [Del]
It's a bit childish but I love Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is a comfort book for me.
Notre Dame de Paris is another favourite of mine and I love the 1998 musical adaptation of it too. It is really well made and I recommend everyone to watch it espacially when they don't want to read the book.
I really like reading plays too maybe even more than books. Some of my favourite plays are Cyrano de Bergerac, The Bacchae, Mother Courage and Her Children, Waiting for Godot, The Pillowman and I love most of Shakespeare's plays as they are building blocks for literature.
I know almost all of them are from different genres but I recommend everyone to give them a try!
5 Name: Don : 2025-10-08 13:06 ID:F7Gj6bV8 [Del]
Gulag Archipelago - Alexander sozyniten
Germs,Guns,And Steel- Jarad Diamond
The Will to power- Fredrick Niche
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
[ Short story- For Esme, With Love and Squalor]
