Nicole Melo

“And I think about the many broad seas that have roared between me and the past— seas of neglect, seas of time, seas of death. I'll never again speak to many of the people who loved me into this moment, just as you will never speak to many of the people who loved you into your now. So we raise a glass to them— and hope that perhaps, somewhere, they are raising a glass to us.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“As e. e. cummings put it, “the snow doesn’t give a soft white / damn Whom it touches.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I remember thinking that I would never be a kid again, not really, which was the first time I can recall feeling that intense longing for the you to whom you can never return.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“My friend Stan Muller tells me that when you're living in the middle of history, you never know what it means. I am living in the middle of the internet. I have no idea what it means.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet