“People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.”
― 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
“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
“Your now is not your forever.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
Emma’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emma’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Self help, Young-adult, and feminism
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