Emily Clay

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Emily is Currently Reading

Emily Clay is currently reading

One & Only

by Maurene Goo (Goodreads Author)

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— Apr 19, 2026 10:18PM

Apr 13, 2026 12:21PM

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Of Women and Salt

by Gabriela Garcia (Goodreads Author)

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— Apr 01, 2026 09:11PM

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Flirting Lessons

by Jasmine Guillory (Goodreads Author)

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Emily’s Quotes

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment

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“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

1216 likes

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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“Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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