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Emme
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"Man has a dream.
Man has a not pretty (very important) pregnant wife and two kids.
Man drools over a random young, very beautiful woman.
Man starves his family chasing his dream.
Wife dies in childbirth.
Literally five seconds later…
Man abandons the newborn and basically forgets his kids to have steamy sex with an angel (yep, the random woman).
He’s in love. Marry me!
I’m about to abandon the book out of pure rage." — Mar 09, 2026 06:25AM
"Man has a dream.
Man has a not pretty (very important) pregnant wife and two kids.
Man drools over a random young, very beautiful woman.
Man starves his family chasing his dream.
Wife dies in childbirth.
Literally five seconds later…
Man abandons the newborn and basically forgets his kids to have steamy sex with an angel (yep, the random woman).
He’s in love. Marry me!
I’m about to abandon the book out of pure rage." — Mar 09, 2026 06:25AM
“Because the only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true.”
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.
Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever
Should come near.”
― The Skylark and Adonais - With Other Poems
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.
Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever
Should come near.”
― The Skylark and Adonais - With Other Poems
“Until death it is all life”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“Live to the point of tears.”
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“The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It’s part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It’s a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It’s about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it.”
― Bird by Bird
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It’s part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It’s a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It’s about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it.”
― Bird by Bird
Emme’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emme’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Science, Spirituality, Travel, nature, outdoors, personal-development, inspirational, supernatural, mythology, how-to, psychological-thriller, world-war-ii, sustainability, environment, italy, nutrition, holocaust, cultural, magical-realism, and dark
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