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Emma is Currently Reading

Emma is currently reading

Tagebuch eines Killerbots (The Murderbot Diaries, #1-4)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, auf-deutsch, books-i-own, sci-fi

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Emma’s Quotes

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: entrepreneurship, inspirational, leadership

797 likes

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
― Joan Didion

tags: place

406 likes

“Travel causes some affliction of the eye, and after a while no place it rests looks like home.”
― Sean Russell, The One Kingdom

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“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

tags: life, world

2699 likes

“Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

tags: gender

104 likes

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