Alexandra
https://www.goodreads.com/twentysixarias
read
(482)
currently-reading (1)
to-read (405)
dnf (68)
fiction (250)
nonfiction (149)
priority (6)
romance (93)
literary (75)
fantasy (45)
currently-reading (1)
to-read (405)
dnf (68)
fiction (250)
nonfiction (149)
priority (6)
romance (93)
literary (75)
fantasy (45)
self-help
(38)
historical (33)
history (24)
memoir (24)
horror (22)
writing (18)
favorites (16)
feminism (13)
nature (12)
politics (12)
historical (33)
history (24)
memoir (24)
horror (22)
writing (18)
favorites (16)
feminism (13)
nature (12)
politics (12)
The sun bends space around itself, and Earth does not turn around it because of a mysterious force but because it is racing directly in a space that inclines, like a marble that rolls in a funnel. There are no mysterious forces generated at
...more
“Sharing a life threads more than flesh and blood together. It weaves her memories in and around and through mine. The more I know of her, the more I share of her, the more I love her in a way the boy I used to be never knew how to love. Eo was a flame, dancing against the wind. I tried to catch her. Tried to hold her. But she was never meant to be held. My wife is not as fickle as a flame. She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I cannot own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides. And that is more than enough.”
― Iron Gold
― Iron Gold
“And here are trees and I know their gnarled surface, water and I feel its taste. These scents of grass and stars at night, certain evenings when the heart relaxes-how shall I negate this world whose power and strength I feel? Yet all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine. You describe it to me and you teach me to classify it. You enumerate its laws and in my thirst for knowledge I admit that they are true. You take apart its mechanism and my hope increases. At the final stage you teach me that this wondrous and multicolored universe can be reduced to the atom and that the atom itself can be reduced to the electron. All this is good and I wait for you to continue. But you tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize then that you have been reduced to poetry: I shall never know.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“You underestimate your own power so you don't have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones. Did I only worry about this question because as a woman I felt required to put the needs of others before my own? Was “kindness” just another term for submission in the face of conflict? These were the kind of things I wrote about in my diary as a teenager: as a feminist I have the right not to love anyone.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Circe
― Circe
Hello Hemlock!
— 226 members
— last activity Jul 11, 2016 03:20AM
A bi-monthly #CanLit book club, hosted on YouTube.
A bi-monthly #CanLit book club, hosted on YouTube.
The Feminist Orchestra Bookclub
— 4673 members
— last activity Dec 11, 2021 11:07AM
Discover and recommend more feminist reads here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/96419.The_Feminist_Orchestra_Potential_Reading_List We're also o ...more
Discover and recommend more feminist reads here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/96419.The_Feminist_Orchestra_Potential_Reading_List We're also o ...more
Alexandra’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexandra’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Alexandra
Lists liked by Alexandra