Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

I thought you hung the moon.

Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.