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“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
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.”
― Crazy Brave
― Crazy Brave
“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Does love bring, even if unconsciously, the delusional arrogance of expecting never to be touched by grief?”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
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