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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

by John Green (Goodreads Author)

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— Jun 05, 2024 05:24PM

Dec 27, 2024 06:57AM

“And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.... The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: freedom, independance, misogyny, passion, relationships

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“I am thoughtful—full of thoughts, all the time, inescapably, exhaustingly. But I am also mindless—acting in accordance with default settings I neither understand nor examine.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

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