Emily

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Emily is Currently Reading

Emily is currently reading

The Curious World of Seahorses: The Life and Lore of a Marine Marvel

by Till Hein

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Sep 01, 2025 02:58PM

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Understanding the Borderline Mother

by Christine Ann Lawson

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by M.T. Anderson

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Emily’s Quotes

“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

1179 likes

“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it can be rebuilt in a way that serves all, rather than a selfish, hoarding few.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

tags: disadvantage, inequality, patriarchy

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“But this face, my face, like all faces, is not only a collection of traces- it's also the first draft of a future face... In my young face I instinctively read a first wrinkle of doubt, a first smile of indifference: lines of a story I'll rewrite and understand on a future reading.”
― Valeria Luiselli, Papeles falsos

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“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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