When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROnce you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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We spent our lives making livings.
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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.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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