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There is nothing more terrible, she has decided, than the ferocity with which humans can love.
The charitable acts that count the most, Greer believes, are those done without anyone knowing.
but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone.
The natural world is filled with such rituals that can be documented and categorized but ultimately not explained.
Human beings experience all kinds of crazy and unexpected emotions while they are alive.
Willpower, she now understands, is an endangered species. Other people conduct wildly inappropriate affairs.

