Emma Getz

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Emma is Currently Reading

Emma Getz is currently reading

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in October 2015

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“The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption--and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by.”

Aug 15, 2024 03:19PM · see review

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Texaco

by Patrick Chamoiseau

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Oct 09, 2025 10:10AM

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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

by Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 07, 2025 09:08AM

Don’t do that to me, he says. Do what? I say. Make out things are nothing. Things that I’m not going to experience. That’s fucked up. Pity you if you thought it was overrated. I would’ve fucking reveled in it. I stand up, admonished, my ...more

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Emma’s Quotes

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

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“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: romantic

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