5 April 2022: "And I want that. To prove that the most ordinary thing about human beings is not violence or greed, but love and care. To prove it to whom, I wonder? Myself, maybe." --Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Finished listening to this book this morning. Its ending pleased me: it's not naive or unblinkingly optimistic, but it is forward-looking and quietly hopeful in the face of a painful world. It rests in that beautiful paradox that an individual doesn't really matter, but that what an individual does always matters. Felt right and earned.
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