What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.