We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.