"You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly." - Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know.” - Leah Johnson
Jetzt wo es draussen wieder wärmer wird und die Sonne häufiger scheint, lese ich gerne die ein oder andere Liebesgeschichte mit grossen Frühlingsgefühlen. Meine Favoriten stelle ich darum heute mal vor. Alle Bücher, die sich um LGBTQ+ Geschichten drehen, werde ich mit einem Regenbogen-Emoji versehen!🌈
“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.” - Jenny Han
“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.” - Leigh Bardugo
“Everything was heightened the way it always is when summer is slipping away to fall, and you're younger than eighteen, and all you can do is suck your cherry Icee and let the chlorine sting your nose, all the way up into the pockets behind your eyes, and snap your towel at the pretty girl with the sunburn, and hope to do it all again come June.” - Emily M. Danforth
“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.” - Leigh Bardugo
"Then maybe I should have said it to you sooner--you needn't hide around us. I'm sorry you ever felt you had to. And that the world makes you feel as though you have to.” - Mackenzi Lee
"You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons. The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can`t get away from it. Not ever." - Nina LaCour
Auf Goodreads nehme ich seit ein paar Jahren jeweils an der Reading Challenge mit. Dort kann man sich ein bestimmtes Ziel setzen, was die Anzahl der gelesenen Bücher angeht. In den letzten Jahren war es meist mein Ziel, fünfzig Bücher zu lesen, letztes Jahr erhöhte ich diese Zahl auf sechzig. Für 2021 habe ich mir nun folgende Challenge gesetzt: dreissig Bücher. Ziemlich wenige im Vergleich zu vergangenen Jahren. Doch auch zu den Genres habe ich mir einige Gedanken gemacht.
"Sometimes I don`t know what to say, and it never feels like it`s okay to not know." - Sarah Gailey
