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Emma Scott
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There was a great, seductive loneliness in the hum, a summons almost, like the call of the sea, and for the first time I understood the impulse that had driven my dad to cash out his bank account, pick up his shirts from the cleaners, gas up the car, and leave town without a word.
— Jul 22, 2019 12:08AM
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Emma Scott
is on page 168 of 771
The movie mostly sucked but Hobie becameJeffrey Wright to me from then on.
— May 06, 2026 09:49PM
Emma Scott
is on page 160 of 771
God this book is so beautiful and so sad. I love it so much.
— May 05, 2026 10:02PM
Emma Scott
is on page 91 of 771
But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking over a brackish wreck, which was illuminated in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.
Sentences like this are why this was the first fiction book I could actually read after Izzy died.
— Apr 20, 2026 10:17PM
Sentences like this are why this was the first fiction book I could actually read after Izzy died.
Emma Scott
is on page 542 of 771
...And that was just something I was going to have to live with, the sadness of loving someone I couldn’t have...
This book is about grief in all its varying forms which is probably why it resonates so deeply with me.
Also, it’s just really effing good.
— Jul 22, 2019 11:42PM
This book is about grief in all its varying forms which is probably why it resonates so deeply with me.
Also, it’s just really effing good.
