“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I think we deserve
a soft epilogue, my love.
We are good people
and we’ve suffered enough.”
―
a soft epilogue, my love.
We are good people
and we’ve suffered enough.”
―
“I’m learning
geography is about loss
and so I keep moving”
― My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
geography is about loss
and so I keep moving”
― My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
“Your heart is a mosaic of everyone you have ever loved. It’s cracks are not flaws…
They are what holds you together.”
―
They are what holds you together.”
―
“I felt the currents move. The grains of sand whispered against each other. His wings were lifting. The darkness around us shimmered with clouds of his gilded blood. Beneath my feet were the bones of a thousand years. I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer.
Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
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