“Heartbreak is not really so different from falling in love. Both are overwhelming experiences that unmoor me. Both burst with yearning. Both consume the self.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― 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
“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
“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
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