Reese

“To fall in love with the world isn’t to ignore or overlook suffering, both human or otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry and watch the sycamore trees leaf out in June. When my breastbone starts to hurt, and my throat tightens and tears well in my eyes, I want to look away from feeling. I want to deflect with irony or anything else that will keep me from feeling directly. We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I had never before understood what "despair" meant, and I am not sure that I understand now, but I understood that year.”
― Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That

“Indeed, we’re hard-pushed to find an asexual depiction of Medusa in contemporary culture, although The Lego Movie manages it beautifully, if briefly.45 Her Lego snake hair is particularly good.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“It seems that Clytemnestra seals her own fate when she values her daughter’s life equally to the life of a king.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths