Emily Jo Donovan

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Emily Jo Donovan is currently reading

The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)

by R.J. Barker (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2026-tbr-goals, currently-reading

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Jan 17, 2026 09:34AM

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: anti-war, death-and-dying

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“...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

tags: books, reading

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