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Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

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Emily’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (13)
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read‎ (1484)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
non-fiction‎ (598)
fiction‎ (511)
memoir-biography‎ (271)
recommend‎ (253)
spiritual-religious‎ (238)
book-club‎ (230)
self-improvement‎ (191)

2024‎ (171)
2025‎ (160)
2021‎ (152)
2020‎ (148)
2023‎ (137)
2019‎ (133)
2022‎ (130)
2026‎ (119)
lovestory‎ (113)
historical-fiction‎ (83)
classics‎ (82)

2018‎ (69)
possible-bookclub‎ (66)
non-fiction-favorites‎ (63)
2017‎ (52)
health-nutrition‎ (49)
humanitarian-global-health‎ (45)
2016‎ (42)
favorite-authors‎ (41)
fiction-favorites‎ (41)
history‎ (40)
refugee-immigration‎ (40)

young-adult‎ (38)
time-management‎ (26)
2013‎ (23)
2015‎ (21)
writing‎ (15)
2014‎ (13)
child-advocacy‎ (11)
my-ebooks‎ (4)
family-bookclub‎ (2)
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Emily’s Quotes

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: evil

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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