Emily

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Emily is Currently Reading

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The Everlasting

by Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)

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Mirror Lake (Shady Hollow, #3)

by Juneau Black

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Cold Clay (Shady Hollow, #2)

by Juneau Black

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Emily’s Notes & Highlights

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

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Not stars, I thought. Stories. An endless number of stories that pour into the funnel and come out in our world, barely changed.

“If you are wondering why other worlds seem so brimful of magic compared to your own dreary Earth, consider how magical this world seems from another perspective. To a world of sea people, your ability to breathe air is stunning; to a world of spear throwers, your machines are demons harnessed to work tirelessly in your service; to a world of glaciers and clouds, summer itself is a miracle.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

tags: differences, wonders, world

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“What matters is the transformative power of metaphor and the stories we tell ourselves about the arc and meaning of our lives.”
― Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

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“Ruth thinks about all the women her age, about their mothers and grandmothers, too—and about all the potential that’s been stymied and wasted. She thinks about the novels that could have been written, the music composed, the scientific breakthroughs made, the diseases that might have been cured, and the political agendas that could have been set if only those women had been encouraged to follow their dreams.”
― Renée Rosen, Let's Call Her Barbie

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“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

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“As it happened, I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even self-definition. I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read something I admired, I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

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