I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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