It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history, but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.