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“What she didn't know what whether his apparent ease was a coping mechanism or an act to settle her, assuage her turmoil. Either way, unlike her, he certainly didn't try to control every aspect of life to make up for the fact that life was anything but controllable.”
― Hold My Girl
― Hold My Girl
“A parent can’t write the end of a child’s story. If she’s lucky, she will never even know it. It’s for the child to figure out. I hope you are finding your own words out there in my sky. I think of you every second.”
― The Deep Sky
― The Deep Sky
“When young you were free of your body because it only brought you pleasure.”
― Vigil
― Vigil
“It was ironic, how he was in there to try to have kids, but everywhere he turned, he felt like, God, do I really want kids? So much can go wrong.”
― Miracle Creek
― Miracle Creek
“He had left his mother’s womb with a particular predisposed mind and started living, and immediately that predisposed mind had run up against various events, and been altered in exactly the way such a mind, buffeted by those exact events, would be altered, and all the while he, Bowman, trapped inside Bowman, had believed he was making choices, but what looked to him like choices had been so severely delimited in advance by the mind, body, and disposition thrust upon him that the whole game amounted to a sort of lavish jailing.”
― Vigil
― Vigil
Emilie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emilie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
61 books
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57 friends
417 books
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67 friends
42 books
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2 friends
1,791 books
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183 friends
3,849 books
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74 friends
1,691 books
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70 friends
3,298 books
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137 friends
561 books
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94 friends
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