I have witnessed Grandfather cry, and I implore myself to say that I desire to never witness him cry again. If this signifies that I must do things for him so that he will not cry, then I will do thos...
I did not feel that he owed it to me. And I did not feel like I owed it to him. We owed it to each other, which is something different.
I could write more, but that is all that matters.
I am so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
How much currency would a Negro homosexual accountant receive?
How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware?...
He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious—so absolutely delicious, in fact, that he questioned whether they were, indeed, made from cucumbers, which were only good enough.
He spoke to her as if she could understand him, never in high pitch or in monosyllables, and never in nonsense words. This is milk that I am feeding you. It comes from Mordechai the milkman, whom you...
He knew that I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, a...
He invented stories so fantastic she had to believe. Of cours, she was only a child, still removing the dust from her first death. What else could she do? And he was already accumulating the dust of h...
He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his...
Hayatımın en güzel günlerinden biri, hayatımı yaşadığım ve hayatım hakkında hiç düşünmediğim bir gündü.
Good people don’t make fewer mistakes, they’re just better at apologizing.
From where she is, the page- her paper-thin future-is infinitely heavy.
For meat, milk, and eggs labelled organic, animals must:1) be raised on organic feed (without most synthetic pesticides/fertilizers)2) be traced3) not be fed antibiotics or growth hormones4) have acce...
Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals...
Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on m...
Everyone performs bad actions. I do. Father does. Even you do. A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.
Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, you are farming by proxy.
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from hi...