I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

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

He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings