One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn’t come back

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.