It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.