A Blog Full of Quotes...

...and books and writings.

[thoughtkick]

“I’ve never trusted anyone all the time. It’s the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.”

— Jay Crownover, Rule

[blkgrlsread2]

[shisasan]

June 25, 1920 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka First published : 1952

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. 1951, featured in The Collected Letters

[thepersonalquotes]

[perfectquote]

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

— John Updike, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

[thoughtkick]

“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”

— C.S. Lewis

[thehopefulquotes]

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

[thoughtkick]

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

— Toni Morrison, Beloved

[kjscottwrites]

Where are you on the kinsey scale of fiction/fic reading?

0 Exclusively read original fiction

1 Predominantly read original fiction, rarely read fanfic

2 Predominantly read original fiction, often read fanfic

3 Equally read original fiction and fanfiction

4 Predominantly read fanfic, often read original fiction

5 Predominantly read fanfic, rarely read original fiction

6 Exclusively read fanfic

x I don't read lol

I wanna talk about it / results

Voting ended onJun 24

I'm curious too, about the drive towards one or the other. If youre a 1-2, what makes you seek out fanfic? If youre a 4-5, what makes you seek out original fiction?

[lucy-the-wyrm]

Nobody has to be a hero for anyone else, that's kinda the whole point.

Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle

[mournfulroses]

Feriha Aktan, from a poem titled "The Letter," featured in Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems

[lightsbookreviews]

The Mindf*ck Series, S.T. Abby

[theartofbeingblack]

Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

22 November 1969 - 4 June 2026

[perfectquote]

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[quotespile]

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being