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

Emma’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) by George R.R. Martin

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“I am not without mercy,” thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.

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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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“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: les-miserables-books

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

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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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