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“The more we talk about the epidemic as an individual disease phenomenon or a moral failing, the easier it is to obfuscate and ignore the social and economic conditions that predispose certain individuals to addiction. The fix isn't more Suboxone or lectures on morality but rather a reinvigorated democracy that provides a pathway for meaningful work, with a living wage, for everybody.”
― Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
― Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
“You don’t have to be an academic. You don’t have to be anything. Don’t force it. Feel your way, and don’t stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it’s one with something to look at out of the window.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you, I had written in my journal. But Shawn had more power over me than I could possibly have imagined. He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that.”
― Educated
― Educated
“We’re all, by and large, comparatively speaking, rich people and have perhaps more than one home. And yet the question is, are we really at home anywhere? Are we really at home in any of our homes? Because it seems to me that to be at home somewhere means to be at peace somewhere and I have a feeling at some deep level there can really be no peace for any of us, no real home for any of us, until there is some measure of real peace for everybody until everybody has a home.”
― The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
― The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
“So we are told to love. We are told to listen. We are told to look. But a lot of the time we don’t because we choose damn well not to, and because only a saint could do it all the time, I think. You have to choose who to listen to because if you listen to everybody and you look at everybody—seeing every face the way Rembrandt saw that woman’s face—how could you make it down half a city block? You couldn’t. If you listened to what everybody says to you, how could you survive a day? But we can do more than we do—more than we do, surely we could do that.”
― The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
― The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
Emma’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emma’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
176 books
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94 friends
863 books
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608 books
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271 books
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225 friends
527 books
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169 friends
1,404 books
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108 friends
36 books
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5 friends
148 books
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65 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Christian, Classics, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Religion, Spirituality, Sports, and Travel
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