Library

A list of my favorite books that I hope will grow.

• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Educated by Tara Westover
• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Goodnight Punpun (Full Series) by Inio Asano
• Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
• We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
• Exit Note by Dorian Bridges
• Millennium Gothic: The Nostalgia Project, Vol I, by Dorian Bridges
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• PUSH by Sapphire
• Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

More Quotes

I've filled entire notebooks of just quotes from music, movies, books, and poetry. Here's just some of them.

• You never know what the outcome is, but the truth is always the best place to start. — Julian Assange, Wikileaks creator.
• We've all got an expiration date. Today is mine — I'm at peace with that. - Exit Note by Dorian Bridges.
• Dying is easy, young man, living is harder. — Right Hand Man (Hamilton).
• Are you satisfied with an average life? — MARINA.
• If you hold on, you're going to be okay. I promise you, the life you want is out there for you. — Barry Loukaitis.
• TV taught me how to feel/Now real life has no appeal. — Oh No! by MARINA.
• Body, forgive me. — Relapse by Blythe Baird.
• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. — Seneca.
• Down the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. — Piano by D.H. Lawrence.
• I died to be the white ghost/Of the man that I was meant to be. — Ghost by Badflower.
• The slow psychic weight of doom settled over me. — The Liar's Club by Mary Karr.
• I am not sorry, merely ashamed. — Educated by Tara Westover.
• Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. —Heinrich Heine.
• Finally I discovered I was sick of this town and everything in it. — Hannah (13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher).
• My body is burning with the shame of not belonging. — Warson Shire.
• Imperfection is the mark of our tribe, our secret sign. — The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese.
• I'm not afraid of God./I am afraid of man. — Savages by MARINA.
• Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any to me? — Victor (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley).
• God is in your typewriter. — A priest to Anne Sexton.
• The optomist believes we live in the best of all realities. The pessimist fears this is true. — Frederick Chilton (NBC Hannibal).
• Genuis is no guarantee of wisdom. — Robert Strauss (Oppenheimer, 2023).
• Life, although it may only be the accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. — The Daemon (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley).
• Oh well, whatever, nevermind. — Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.