“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“The half-life of love is forever.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Fatema’s 2025 Year in Books
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