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Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

by Heather Fawcett (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 01, 2026 09:20PM

“Disappointment is a powerful thing. Used correctly, it is stronger than fear, more terrible than physical pain, if you see it in the eyes of the one you love, you'll do almost anything to make it stop.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

tags: discrimination, life, relationships

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“It's strange what our memories do to us, editing our feelings.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“we ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“You know, is good to underpromise and overdeliver.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

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“(...) it doesn't matter if life is long or short, it isn't time that's the problem, it's the speed. Far too much happens when you're alive. everything goes so damn fast, how are you supposed to have time to be a human being?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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