Abby

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


What I'd Rather N...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Secret Scripture
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Grand: Becoming M...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 16 books that Abby is reading…
Loading...
Donal Ryan
“Any notion you like, no matter how mad it seems, can be a fact's chrysalis. Once you say it loud enough and often enough it becomes debatable, Debates change minds. Debate is the larval stage of truth, Constant, unflagging, loud repetition completes your notion's metamorphis into fact. The fact takes wing and flutters from place to place and mind to mind and makes a living, permanent thing of itself.”
Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

Sheila Heti
“How could the waves do it, through each and every moment, and so naturally, as if it was for the first time, as if it was for the last time, as if it was for the middle time, as if it would go on forever, and as if it would one day end. The sea moved forward and back with all of these possibilities, and all of them were true.”
Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

Brannavan Gnanalingam
“...Poleman kept telling them it was nearly Anzac Day and they needed to remember the sacrifices of the soldiers, and her thinking that the Civil War taught her that people in power don't give a fig about people like her and their sacrifice, they only cared about people who could help them cling to power, that there was no point trusting anyone with a story to tell or someone else's sacrifice to sell, that stories of sacrifice are only used to help those in power, otherwise it's not a sacrifice, it's just a non-grieved over death”
Brannavan Gnanalingam, Sodden Downstream

Julian Barnes
“You put us on a pedestal in order to look up our skirts.”
Julian Barnes, England, England

“It occurred to me then that to be a child is to know the cradle rocks both toward the parent and away from them. That is the ebb and flow of life, swinging toward and away from one another, perhaps so we build up the strength for that one moment we will be rocked so far away, the person we love the most is gone by the time we return.”
Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

year in books
Lizzie
712 books | 33 friends

Bella
2,166 books | 37 friends

Conrad ...
532 books | 59 friends

Talia J...
466 books | 101 friends

sophie
337 books | 66 friends

Jordy
694 books | 62 friends

Peyton ...
389 books | 7 friends

Sar Starr
6,005 books | 301 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Abby

Lists liked by Abby