We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings