Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

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.