Lucy

“Of course, we still know almost nothing about what’s coming—neither for us as individuals nor for us as a species. Perhaps that’s why I find it so comforting that we do know when Halley will return, and that it will return, whether we are here to see it or not.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I now know that true chillness can also come from being so demoralized by American politics that you cannot care about men.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“First: I can feel everything and survive.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“I did not know, before that woman told me, that all feelings were for feeling. I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy. I thought that happy was for feeling and that pain was for fixing and numbing and deflecting and hiding and ignoring. I thought that when life got hard, it was because I had gone wrong somewhere. I thought that pain was weakness and that I was supposed to suck it up. But the thing was that the more I sucked it up, the more food and booze I had to suck down.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed