There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

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

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn’t come back

I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

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.