I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.

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

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.

We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?