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“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“... the snow keeps falling, like a ceaseless repetition of the same infinitesimally small mistake.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“He feels ambivalent about this, as if it’s disloyal of him, because maybe he’s enjoying how she looks or some physical aspect of her closeness. He’s not sure what friends are allowed to enjoy about each other.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back.”
― Commonwealth
― Commonwealth
“He reaches for her hand and she gives it to him without thinking. For a second he holds it, his thumb moving over her knuckles. Then he lifts her hand to his mouth and kisses it. She feels pleasurably crushed under the weight of his power over her, the vast ecstatic depth of her will to please him. That’s nice, she says. He nods. She feels a low gratifying ache inside her body, in her pelvic bone, in her back.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,313 books
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2,140 friends
2,225 books
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770 friends
255 books
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34 friends
337 books
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42 friends
176 books
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27 friends
783 books
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1,143 friends
187 books
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117 friends
102 books
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14 friends
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