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“How could the solution be more man-made climate change, not less? And that is geo-engineering's premise: yet more monsters of our own making. Dominoes will fall in a rapidly accelerating chain, but how significant and where they might be is a mystery. It would have been safer never to have touched the first one.
In: All we can save / A handful of dust”
― Kate Marvel

“But there were moments - when he saw groups of friends sitting in neat, symmetrical rows on pub benches, or couples holding hands in the street, where he felt a wave of embarrassment that he [...] hadn't exchanged so much as a cup of tea with an acquaintance or a flirtatious smile with someone on a train in years - that he scared himself with how intense the feeling of longing was. Because maybe, actually, he did want to find people to be close to, to make friends and perhaps even find someone to spend the rest of his life with.”
― Richard Roper, How Not to Die Alone

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening