Joy

“We can talk and talk and talk about what the pain is like, but we can never manage to convey what it is.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I just read a list of the hundred things you should do before you die. I was kind of surprised to see that shouting for help wasn’t in there.”
― M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli

“Every human being is a wet, gassy katamari of triumphs, traumas, scars, coping mechanisms, parental baggage, weird stuff you saw on the Internet too young, pressure from your grandma to take over the bodega when what you really want to do is dance, and all the other fertilizer that makes a smear of DNA grow into a fully formed toxic avenger.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“I can only know my pain, and you can only know yours.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet