Emily Ward

https://www.instagram.com/read.by.emily/

https://www.goodreads.com/emward44

Emily’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (3731)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (366)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
manga‎ (255)
manga-shōnen‎ (205)
young-adult‎ (35)
manga-bl‎ (25)
ya-fantasy‎ (24)
lgbtq‎ (17)
nonfiction‎ (17)
manga-seinen‎ (15)

manhwa‎ (15)
ya-romance‎ (14)
ya-adventure‎ (12)
academic‎ (10)
contemporary‎ (8)
fantasy‎ (8)
science-fiction‎ (8)
sports‎ (8)
ya-contemporary‎ (8)
history‎ (7)
manga-josei‎ (6)
romance‎ (6)

graphic-novels‎ (4)
childrens‎ (3)
dystopian‎ (3)
historical-fiction‎ (3)
manga-gl‎ (3)
mg-fantasy‎ (3)
middle-grade‎ (3)
ya-mystery‎ (3)
ya-sports‎ (3)
adventure‎ (2)
cookbooks‎ (2)
humor‎ (2)

memoir‎ (2)
ya-science-fiction‎ (2)
classics‎ (1)
essays‎ (1)
feminism‎ (1)
literary-fiction‎ (1)
manga-shōjo‎ (1)
mg-adventure‎ (1)
mg-horror‎ (1)
plays‎ (1)
science‎ (1)
self-help‎ (1)

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Emily’s Quotes

“Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.”
― Oikawa Tooru, Haikyūu

tags: anime, haikyuu, manga, talent

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“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding

2473 likes

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114570 likes

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

10396 likes

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: quotes

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Emily’s Groups

Addicted to YA — 66211 members — last activity 14 minutes ago
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put bac ...more

The Procrastinators Book Club — 4635 members — last activity 3 hours, 15 min ago
Welcome to the Procrastinators!! Do you have a book or series you always wanted to read but never got around to it? Were you procrastinating it becau ...more

EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club — 28674 members — last activity 51 minutes ago
Click HERE for the latest group announcements. "It reminded me of ____ but in space." "I read ____ in high school, and actually liked it." "It's ...more

Rated YA-MA — 3097 members — last activity Nov 16, 2025 01:48PM
A group for adult lovers of Young Adult fiction. We feature a different YA book genres and topics with our group reads, in order to cater to a varie ...more