I don’t speak, he wrote, I’m sorry.
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
I asked her why she was getting so upset about such a small thing. She said, 'It doesn't feel small to me.
I am the one who broke the rule. But I am the one who made the rule you couldn’t live with.
I am a mother, she thought—not an answer to the question being asked, and no more her ultimate ambition than happiness, but her ultimate identity.
How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
Her learning to sew (from a book Yankel brought back from Lvov) coincided with her refusal to wear any clothes that she did not make for herself, and when he bought her a book about animal physiology,...
He was responsible. He was good. It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. So what's something? Being reliable is so...
He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him more pissed, because being less stupid than one's parents is repulsive, like taking a gulp from a glass...
He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bearthe thought of her making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he cou...
He conducted interviews with nearly a hundred USDA poultry inspectors from thirty-seven plants. Every week, he reports, millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by...
Grief and loss are probably the most fearful creatures that exist. But loss shouldn't be a fearful creature. It should be a creature of wisdom. It should teach us not to fear that tomorrow may never c...
For every ten tuna, sharks, and other large fish that were in our oceans less than a century ago, only one is left. Many scientists predict the total collapse of all fished species in less than fifty...
Ein Junge und ein Mädchen liegen auf dem Boden, vor sich die Dachschräge. Sie konzentriert sich auf den Jungen, der aus dieser Entfernung so aussieht, als wäre er in ihrem Alter. Und selbst aus dieser...
E adesso, permettimi di chiederti come pensi che riuscirai a ottenere i risultati che mi hai elencato.Seppellirò i miei sentimenti nel profondo di me.Che cosa intendi per seppellire i tuoi sentimenti?...
Despite the near-constant regret he felt about being himself, he never confused himself for the problem. The problem was the world. It was the world that didn't fit. But how much happiness has ever re...
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This...
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...
By now, almost all of the shtetl’s three hundred–odd citizens hadgathered to debate that about which they knew nothing. The less a citizenknew, the more adamantly he or she argued. There was nothing n...
But the point isn’t that I want to know everything about you. It’s that I don’t want anything about you withheld.