Sign in with Facebook
was nineteen and sheltered, still too young to understand what my mother herself had lived through since she was nineteen. Even as I comforted her, I was oblivious to the signs of what she had been experiencing my entire life. How one could
...more
“Real life? Real life is hard, my dear, and I am giving you the vision of your fantasies.”
― The Bell Chime
― The Bell Chime
“But even as I fought to make myself smaller, my self would fight back. The diets would not stick, the laughter would not quiet, the opinions would not hide, the anger would not die. Every attempt I made to be less of myself would fail, and I would come back bigger than ever—in every way.”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“For so many of us, sorry has become how we translate the word body.”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“The context for hope is radical uncertainty’, writes McKinnon; ‘anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it’, Rebecca Solnit. ‘Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door somewhere.”
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
“If the self can only understand that ‘it was already dying, already dead’, then it can crash to the bottom with equanimity; if it can also understand that everything around it is fleeting and insubstantial – a speck of dust in the cosmos, to be blown away in a millisecond – it can quietly let go of the world. It won’t hurt much.”
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 310267 members
— last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Apocalypse Whenever
— 13879 members
— last activity 2 hours, 33 min ago
The most active group for apocalyptic and dystopian stories! Join a monthly book discussion, get recommendations, or just tell us if you like canned p ...more
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,141 books
|
4,784 friends
3,326 books
|
742 friends
289 books
|
87 friends
3,816 books
|
534 friends
3,482 books
|
454 friends
7,026 books
|
3,202 friends
3,571 books
|
1,787 friends
14 books
|
1,961 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Emily
Lists liked by Emily
