People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.