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“I sat on the campus cricket pitch on my own and smoked two cigarettes, one after another. I had a headache, I hadn't eaten. My body felt used up and worthless to me. I didn't want to put any food or medicine into it anymore.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“People discriminated very carefully then between administering things and governing people. They did it so well that we forgot that the will to dominance is as central in human beings as the impulse to mutual aid is, and has to be trained in each individual, and each new generation.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“But the acclaim also felt like part of the performance itself, the best part, and the most pure expression of what I was trying to do, which was to make myself into this kind of person: someone worthy of praise, worthy of love.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Separation is educational all right but your presence is the education I want.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“I enjoyed playing this kind of character, the smiling girl who remembered things. Bobbi told me she thought I didn’t have a ‘real personality’, but she said she meant it as a compliment. Mostly I agreed with her assessment. At any time I felt I could do or say anything at all, and only afterwards think: oh, so that’s the kind of person I am.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
Emaline’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emaline’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
320 books
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3 friends
841 books
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45 friends
1,657 books
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136 friends
273 books
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153 friends
3 books
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149 friends
5 books
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99 friends
0 books
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16 friends
Favorite Genres
Art, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Poetry, Suspense, and Thriller
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