Emily
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Aunt Helen said Corn Mother left instructions for us to share the fruit of her heart, to be at peace with our neighbors so the right kind of rain would come, and the earth would be healthy and strong. In my childlike way, I came to
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“A fragment for my friend— If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“good government should be a tool that helps where it can and gets out of the way when it should. It must work for everyone, protect our investments, and defend the civil rights of all.”
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
“Finding the truth requires three simple questions, she explained, and they must be answered in any investigation: (1) What is the problem? (2) Why is it a problem? (3) How do you solve it?”
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
“Nothing was off-limits, nothing was deemed “too adult,” and nothing took precedence over reading; it was considered the holiest activity a person could engage in.”
― 28 Summers
― 28 Summers
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Chick-lit, Crime, Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Suspense, Travel, and Young-adult
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