We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROne day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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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 animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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