Sign in with Facebook
26 books
—
16 voters
But I've spent the past month preceding this night reminding myself not to equate familiarity with safety. That's not a mistake I'm willing to make twice.
“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“She could go on into infinity, and yet she understood that knowing another person was not a stable condition. Knowing was kinetic, ineffable, and it had limits, but the precise location of those limits, the moment at which the knowing stopped and the not-knowing began, was invisible. You would know you had reached the border only after you had surpassed it.”
― The Third Hotel
― The Third Hotel
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
Oleida’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Oleida’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,377 books
|
168 friends
406 books
|
39 friends
463 books
|
82 friends
607 books
|
391 friends
923 books
|
506 friends
607 books
|
77 friends
305 books
|
32 friends
250 books
|
3,139 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Oleida
Lists liked by Oleida
