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“Meningitis, like the virus that caused it, wasn't a metaphor or a narrative device. It was just a disease.
But we are hardwired to look for patterns, to make constellations from the stars. There must be some logic to the narrative, some reason for the misery.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
But we are hardwired to look for patterns, to make constellations from the stars. There must be some logic to the narrative, some reason for the misery.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“These days, after drinking from the internet's fire hose for thirty years, I've begun to feel more of those negative effects. I don't know if it's my age, or the fact that the internet is no longer plugged into the wall and now travels with me everywhere I go, but I find myself thinking of that Wordsworth poem that begins, "The world is too much with us; late and soon.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“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.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Sapna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sapna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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21 friends
423 books
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587 books
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716 books
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144 books
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140 books
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90 books
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460 books
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