Gwyneth

“Everyone believed him of course, but you always knew with Salome that if anyone’s head was going to roll it wouldn’t be hers.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Tent

“As we have amplified our ability to shape the world, so we become more responsible for the long afterlives of that shaping. The Anthropocene asks of us the question memorably posed by the immunologist Jonas Salk: ‘Are we being good ancestors?”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down