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“If the planet itself is a living organism, it has an immune system strong enough to rid itself of the species that has been assailing it.”

We’ll see if I’ll be able to finish this book because it is feeding into my ever present anxiety about the climate crisis and the future of human civilization. Stay tuned

“I only knelt for a while in the place where the woods had once been, but were no longer, until I understood what every person understands eventu-ally: that I had left home and could never return to it, and that there would never be a time when I did not miss it.”

What I can tell you is that the only heaven I've found in all this hell was in the people I loved…So, you need to keep on thinking the best of folk, despite seeing the worst of us. Hold on to that fire inside you, girl. Because it makes you shine. And once it goes out, it goes out forever. Know you'll make mistakes. Understand that it will bruise hell, it might even break. But don't lock it up inside your chest.

Their back and forth has me kicking my feet

“Your past is stone and your future is clay. And you decide the shape of the life you want to make.”

TW: a couple of animal deaths so far 😢