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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAnd she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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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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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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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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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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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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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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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 put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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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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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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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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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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