“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.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“We can talk and talk and talk about what the pain is like, but we can never manage to convey what it is.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“I'm not sure why I find it beautiful to devote oneself obsessively to the creation of something that doesn't matter, but I do.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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