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.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

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

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.