Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.

Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].