It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhen 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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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.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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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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