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Emma Griffiths
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It is the first responsibility of a friend to provide a shoulder to cry on.”
“Hurry! hurry! the house seemed to whisper round him. The hour is passing … passing …”
― Tom's Midnight Garden
― Tom's Midnight Garden
“Sometimes he would doze, and then, in his half-dreaming, he became two persons, and one of him would not go to sleep but selfishly insisted on keeping the other awake with a little muttering monologue on whipped cream and shrimp sauce and rum butter and real mayonnaise and all the other rich variety of his diet nowadays.”
― Tom's Midnight Garden
― Tom's Midnight Garden
“It’s touched you, it’s written all over you: you’ve felt the hand of nature. It won’t ever leave you now; you’re salted.”
― The Salt Path
― The Salt Path
“But there are bars across the bottom of the window!’ he burst out. ‘This is a nursery! I’m not a baby!”
― Tom's Midnight Garden
― Tom's Midnight Garden
“There is a time, between night and day, when land-scapes sleep. Only the earliest riser sees that hour; or the all-night traveller, letting up the blind of his railway-carriage window, will look out on a rushing landscape of stillness, in which trees and bushes and plants stand immobile and breathless in sleep—wrapped in sleep, as the traveller himself wrapped his body in his great-coat or his rug the night before.”
― Tom's Midnight Garden
― Tom's Midnight Garden
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The #AdventureSociety is a book club for adventurous people. For as long as people have been telling stories, they've been telling adventure stories. ...more
Emma’s 2025 Year in Books
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455 books
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785 books
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170 books
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281 books
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Children's, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, Science fiction, Thriller, Young-adult, Contemporary Romance, Children’s Classics, Steampunk, French Literature, Culture Literature, Sociology, Political, Dystopian, Humour, Military, and Inspirational
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