Heather Wahlquist

“I have to attend a party—and I say have to because that is my relationship with parties*—I usually research all the known attendees in advance.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“The body is always deciding what the brain will think about, and the brain is all the time deciding what the body will do and feel. Our brains are made of meat, and our bodies experience thoughts.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“no individual ever humbly acknowledged anything while referring to themselves as "we.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“After the death of the poet Jane Kenyon, her husband Donald Hall wrote, “We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet