Emma Cahoon > Recent Status Updates

I am mentally preparing myself to watch everyone’s 2025 challenge goal climb higher and higher

Happy 2025 I am locking in

“I’ve tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would be without them?”

Weyes blood

I am so sat which is good this is what I needed

“Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I’m nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.” THIS IS GORGEOUS

“Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I’m nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.” THIS IS GORGEOUS

“You’ll have to forgive me. I’m a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I’ve left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.”

ummmm im starting to get scared

but also its really starting to pick up and get good

Will I finish by the end of 2024 that’s the goal

I know I know I’m behind on this

The world building is done so effortlessly it’s insane

Also: the concept of freedom to and freedom from…… ohhhhhhh ummmmm

“You are the only young man I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!”

Tennessee ur cookinggggg

“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.” (Pg 41)

Hmmmmmmmmm

Hmmmmm

(Yall are not gonna like my review so I’m just not saying anything yet)

“Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven, so you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.”

IM SORRY???? GREGORY??

there’s no place like home….

“And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the sidestepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever. It’s the compensation for a more limited scope in the world… cross a woman and the universe is changed” hmmmmmm

I’m sorry I just don’t like peter duke!

Okay I currently have SO many books going right now but we’re audiobooking this for our long car ride and I have to be honest it’s kind of draaaaaaggggging

Obviously love the our town and New Hampshire references but i feel like im not loving it as much as the hype made me think i would

this is a denser slower section but every so often he drops a fire line

“When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.”

“To the grim poor there need be no pour quoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions.”

“Oh Fiyero, we’re not old yet, but we’re old enough to be old friends already, aren’t we? …. I’m sorry. It’s just that that was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness- and life isn’t the same now. It’s wonderful, but it isn’t the same.”

“Was it an accident I saw that, Fiyero wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes. Or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you are ready to see it anew?”

He’s just so brilliant