Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

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.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

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