You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.
Jonathan Safran FoerShe laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
Jonathan Safran FoerThe factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.
Jonathan Safran FoerShe was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.
Jonathan Safran FoerShe was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now thatโs love.
Jonathan Safran FoerBut when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.
Jonathan Safran Foer