It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.