She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.