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john green has been writing the most beautiful essays on these topics (and making me cry) and then giving them four and a half stars. i fear what he has in store for a 5 stars topic

“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”

“we are so powerful that we have escaped our planet’s atmosphere. but we are not powerful enough to save those we love from suffering.”

six pages in and i already want to cry