But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.