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Emily is Currently Reading

Emily is currently reading

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown

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Jan 01, 2026 03:12AM

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

by C.S. Lewis

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Dec 29, 2025 08:17AM

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Let Me In: The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar

by Ann Dinsdale

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“The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other's mouth.
A long, slow slide, then a sudden impact.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

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“Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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“Then I will not repine
Knowing that bird of mine
Though flown shall in a distant tree
Bright melody for me
Return.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry

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“I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Abuse is also when your personality is attacked, not just your body. Abuse is feeling like you constantly have to walk on eggshells around the person you're supposed to love. Abuse is being cut off from your friends, even if you could never prove it was their idea you did it. Abuse is being made to feel you're going crazy. Abuse is being lured in with grand promises and wild declarations of love that can never be sustained. Abuse is being pushed into doing sexual things you're not comfortable with. That is also called rape, another word that has taken me some time to feel belongs to me. Abuse is intentionally humiliating you. Abuse is constantly blaming you for everything, and never them.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

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