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“Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“...maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“Leave, instead. Get away for good, far from the life we’ve lived since birth. Settle in well-organized lands where everything really is possible. I had fled, in fact. Only to discover, in the decades to come, that I had been wrong, that it was a chain with larger and larger links: the neighborhood was connected to the city, the city to Italy, Italy to Europe, Europe to the whole planet. And this is how I see it today: it’s not the neighborhood that’s sick, it’s not Naples, it’s the entire earth, it’s the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
246 books
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177 friends
2,480 books
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1,670 friends
604 books
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166 friends
702 books
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176 friends
588 books
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61 friends
670 books
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1,316 friends
372 books
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503 friends
520 books
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1,935 friends
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