I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.