You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren't familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.