“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
“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“Because even the bravest of us can still be afraid sometimes, so long as we don’t let our fear become all we know.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“A home isn't always the house we live in. It's also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
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