Sign in with Facebook
Marcella’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Marcella’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Marcella Purnama’s Followers (24)
3,929 books
|
411 friends
671 books
|
656 friends
404 books
|
9 friends
432 books
|
56 friends
803 books
|
420 friends
3,297 books
|
1,220 friends
254 books
|
171 friends
3,920 books
|
1,798 friends
More friends…
Marcella Purnama
Goodreads Author
Born
Jakarta, Indonesia
Website
Twitter
Genre
Member Since
May 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/mpurnama
To ask
Marcella Purnama
questions,
please sign up.
|
What I Wish I Had Known (And Other Lessons You Learned in Your 20s)
by
—
published
2017
|
|
|
Swimming with The Sharks
—
published
2014
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
How Little Bao Came Into The World (Bonus Part)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the bonus post of the original three-part series of how little bao came into the world, and the days following his arrival. (Read the first, second, and third part on these respective links.) Just a warning: It's a lengthy one. The last word count of the total story is almost 12,000 words, but I'm hopeful in sharing mine, others can learn from it, or realise that they are no
Read more of this blog post »
Marcella’s Recent Updates
|
Marcella Purnama
wants to read
|
|
|
Marcella Purnama
wants to read
|
|
|
Marcella Purnama
wants to read
|
|
|
Marcella Purnama
finished reading
|
|
|
Marcella Purnama
finished reading
|
|
|
Marcella Purnama
rated a book really liked it
|
|
|
Marcella Purnama
rated a book really liked it
|
|
|
Marcella Purnama
rated a book really liked it
|
|
|
Marcella Purnama
rated a book really liked it
|
|
“There’s a quote that has been said too many times by too many people: I must have done something right to deserve you in my life.
Perhaps despite all our wrong doings and mistakes, despite all our failures and imperfections, we have done something right, for something good still happens in life.”
― What I Wish I Had Known
Perhaps despite all our wrong doings and mistakes, despite all our failures and imperfections, we have done something right, for something good still happens in life.”
― What I Wish I Had Known
“Our Peter Pan generation is unhappy. All our lives, we want to grow up—
to be treated like adults, to have freedom to choose. Then we get here and
it turns out being an adult sucks. We pay the bills and taxes, watching others succeed while we are forever waiting for our turn.
We believe we are special, but nothing special has come our way.”
― What I Wish I Had Known
to be treated like adults, to have freedom to choose. Then we get here and
it turns out being an adult sucks. We pay the bills and taxes, watching others succeed while we are forever waiting for our turn.
We believe we are special, but nothing special has come our way.”
― What I Wish I Had Known
“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
“Heart weeps.
Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.
Heart feels better, then.
But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart.
Heart is so new to this.
I want them back, says heart.
Head is all heart has.
Help, head. Help heart.”
― Varieties of Disturbance
Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.
Heart feels better, then.
But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart.
Heart is so new to this.
I want them back, says heart.
Head is all heart has.
Help, head. Help heart.”
― Varieties of Disturbance
“He took her face in his bloody hands. "I’ll come and find you wherever you are. I’ll not stop breathing until I do. So you’re going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.”
― Froi of the Exiles
― Froi of the Exiles
“And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to shout. You. No one but you. Stupid, stupid girl.”
― Froi of the Exiles
― Froi of the Exiles
Dreamer's Readers
— 66 members
— last activity Jan 07, 2019 12:35PM
We believe a great book becomes greater when others share their perspectives combined with your own. Not only does it open your mind to new ideas, but ...more
