A review by barbala
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open.

Home is a teddy bear, but only a certain teddy bear at a certain time.

Rivers keep going, and we keep going, and there is no way back to the roof of that hotel. But the memory still holds me together.

And so I try to turn toward that scattered light, belly out, and I tell myself: This doesn’t look like a picture. And it doesn’t look like a god. It is a sunset, and it is beautiful, and this whole thing you’ve been doing where nothing gets five stars because nothing is perfect? That’s bullshit. So much is perfect. Starting with this. I give sunsets five stars.

We are all little fairies, sprinkling meaning dust everywhere we go.