He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe 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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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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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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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