She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNinety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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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.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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