Sign in with Facebook
431 books
—
624 voters
gad-fly
https://www.google.com/search?q=gadfly+definition&oq=gadfly
“The cathedral as a whole is awesome and stirring in spite, and possibly because, of the fact that we have no idea who built it. When we walk through it, we are communing not with individual stone carvers but with an entire culture.”
― In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
― In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
“What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem and enumerated all of the dissastisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don’t like having choices made for you, you should start making your own.”
― In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
― In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.”
― The Meaning of Shakespeare
― The Meaning of Shakespeare
“GENERALLY PEOPLE LIKE TO MOVE ON, Death hinted. THEY LOOK FORWARD TO AN AFTERLIFE. “I Will Stay Here, Please.” HERE? THERE’S NOTHING TO DO HERE, said Death. “Yes, I Know,” said the ghost of the golem. “It Is Perfect. I Am Free.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
“The worl is ful of things waiting to happen. Thats the meat and boan of it right there. You myt think you can jus go here and there doing nothing. Happening nothing. You cant tho you bleeding cant. You put your self on any road and some thing wil show its self to you. Wanting to happen. Waiting to happen. You myt say, 'I dont want to know.' But 1ce its showt its self to you you wil know wont you. You cant not know no mor. There it is and working in you. You myt try to put a farness be twean you and it only you cant becaws youre carrying it inside you. The waiting to happen aint out there where it ben no more its inside you.”
― Riddley Walker
― Riddley Walker
Eva’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eva’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,034 books
|
299 friends
419 books
|
198 friends
954 books
|
51 friends
1,645 books
|
112 friends
1,750 books
|
96 friends
1,027 books
|
53 friends
1,643 books
|
918 friends
12 books
|
106 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Eva
Lists liked by Eva
