and we were all beautiful

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"Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish; and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point—one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed—they contrived in the end to reach it."

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (read Dec '22 - Jan '23)

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"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."

Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic (read Aug-Dec '22)

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"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (read Oct-Nov '22)

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“In the nighttime. Mercy. In the darkness. Mercy. In the morning. Mercy. At my bedside. Mercy. On my knees now. Mercy. Mercy. Mercy.”

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (read Sep ‘22)

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“This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?”

Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (read Sep ‘22)

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“You Humans really do cripple yourselves with your belief that you all think in unique ways.”

Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (read Aug ‘22)

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"Wolf is all I have left. I need him as much as he needs me. But that doesn't make it love." "Actually, dear friend, I suspect that is precisely what makes it love."

Marissa Meyer, Winter (reread Jul '22)

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"Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both."

Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale (reread Jun '22)