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emma is Currently Reading

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Women, Seated

by Zhang Yueran

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emma said: " so me

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The Firefly Summer

by Morgan Matson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: contemporary, children-s, library, currently-reading

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emma said: " real fans add a book before a cover, synopsis, and release date, and then don't read it for years after it comes out

(reading for a substack post) ...more "

Aug 14, 2025 06:33AM · see review

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L.A. Women

by Ella Berman (Goodreads Author)

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emma said: " is this a sequel to the eve babitz book?

(this is such a dumb joke.)

(update: it's clear to me now from 12% in that this is eve babitz and joan didion fanfiction, so i'd like to edit my claim. this is a smart joke.)

(thanks to the publisher for the e-ar ...more "

Aug 11, 2025 02:15PM · see review

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emma’s Quotes

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
― Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

tags: carpe-diem, poetry

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“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

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