“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“Guilt wants to cover all the bases, be everywhere at once, reach into the past to tweak, neaten and repair. Guilt like Tourettic utterance flows uselessly, inelegantly from one helpless human to another, contemptuous of perimeters, doomed to be mistaken or refused on delivery.”
― Motherless Brooklyn
― Motherless Brooklyn
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― The Inheritance of Loss
― The Inheritance of Loss
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
gabe’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at gabe’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by gabe
Lists liked by gabe





























