“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.”
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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
Em’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Em’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, and Science fiction
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