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Emily’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (143)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (724)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
romance‎ (177)
young-adult‎ (143)

graphic-novel-manga‎ (109)
fiction‎ (38)
middle-grade‎ (33)
fantasy‎ (27)
non-fiction‎ (18)
2020-release‎ (17)

horror‎ (14)
mystery‎ (6)
science-fiction‎ (6)
children-s-books‎ (5)
new-adult‎ (4)
poetry‎ (4)

humor‎ (3)
dnf‎ (2)
historic-fiction‎ (1)
retellings‎ (1)

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Emily’s Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51809 likes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45237 likes

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

10944 likes

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

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