I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.