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“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
Emma’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emma’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3 books
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3 friends
72 books
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18 friends
388 books
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42 friends
269 books
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15 friends
29 books
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4 friends
123 books
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30 friends
1 book
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1 friend
9 books
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1 friend
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Self help, Young-adult, and feminism
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