Belle

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


Book cover for Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
She treated herself like an art project, a sculpture defined by removal: The weight. The small lines erased with Botox. Her face grew hard and angular, with hollows under her cheekbones. Her once unruly hair was heated and ironed straight, ...more
Loading...
Neil Gaiman
“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.”
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Ray Bradbury
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Jonathan Safran Foer
“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Mary Ann Shaffer
“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Michael Shaara
“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.”
Michael Shaara

217750 Awesome People Reading Awesome Books — 13 members — last activity Aug 10, 2017 11:36PM
Please see the group name for details.
184638 Reading is Sexy, — 16 members — last activity Apr 23, 2018 10:43AM
Just a place for book lovers to share and discuss books that we are reading or have read. Recommendations and basically anything bookish
66595 The Rooster! — 307 members — last activity Feb 26, 2019 11:53PM
Tournament of books commentariat, all year long!
year in books
Hank
1,961 books | 152 friends

Heidi's...
532 books | 154 friends

Amanda ...
1,391 books | 106 friends

Wendy w...
1,825 books | 650 friends

Theo Logos
4,806 books | 543 friends

Julie G
3,402 books | 738 friends

kimberly
1,254 books | 961 friends

Tooter
1,017 books | 822 friends

More friends…
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeTwilight by Stephenie MeyerPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Books Ever
77,308 books — 288,303 voters
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Best Westerns
1,386 books — 1,524 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Belle

Lists liked by Belle