It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!

We spent our lives making livings.

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.