There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.