“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.”
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it.” A”
― Welcome to the Monkey House
― Welcome to the Monkey House
“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”
― Everything I Never Told You
― Everything I Never Told You
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