Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.
Jonathan Safran FoerBut I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.
Jonathan Safran FoerTo remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
Jonathan Safran FoerPerhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
Jonathan Safran Foer