Daniel Demarle

“When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ever done anything he wanted to me.”
― Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

“Thus, in June 2019, New York State passed the most ambitious set of climate targets in the country, including carbon-free electricity by 2040 and a net zero emissions economy by 2050.”
― Robert Pollin, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet; Library Edition

“STAR DREK Human beings are such slobs that, from now on, pigs must declare us the other white meat. Do you know that right now there is so much discarded trash in outer space that three times last month the International Space Station was almost hit by some useless hunk of floating metal—not unlike the International Space Station itself? So really, you’ve got to give the human race credit: only humans could visit an infinite void and leave it cluttered. Not only have we screwed up our own planet; somehow we have also managed to use up all the space in space. Now, history shows over and over again that if the citizens of Earth put their minds to it, they can destroy anything. It doesn’t matter how remote or pristine, together, yes, we can fuck it up. The age of space exploration is only fifty years old, and we have already managed to turn the final frontier into the New Jersey Meadowlands.12”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

“Everybody cannot be calm. To be calm is a luxury!”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water