Kellyn Dove

“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.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I'm not what anyone thinks I am. I never was. I didn't have the mouth to put it into words, to say what was wrong, to change the things I felt I needed to change. And every day it was difficult, walking around and knowing that people saw me one way, knowing that they were wrong, so completely wrong, that the real me was invisible to them. It didn't even exist to them. So: If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“Perhaps if we could hear the bomb dropping, we might imagine what would happen if it struck our own homes.”
― Clint Smith, Above Ground

“When you have the microphone, what you say matters, even when you're just kidding.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet