The apartment had never been darker.I turned on the lamp.It became bright around us.The apartment became darker.
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calculated 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals, only counting nontherapeutic uses.
That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that the love is there.
That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favourite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if?...
Regarding US government recommendations that tend to encourage dairy consumption in the name of preventing osteoporosis, Nestle notes that in parts of the world where milk is not a staple of the diet,...
Rabbi, I feel no despair anymore. For seventy years I had only nightmares, but I have no nightmares anymore. I feel only gratitude for my life, for every moment I lived. Not only the good moments. I f...
Only a few months into our marriage, we started marking off areas in the apartment as Nothing Places, in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marke...
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 t...
Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.
Mom told me, It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think? I told her, It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.
Me pasé la vida aprendiendo a sentir menos.Cada día sentía menos.¿Eso es madurar? ¿O es algo peor?Uno no puede protegerse de la tristeza sin protegerse al mismo tiempo de la felicidad».
Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.
La casa dove tua bis-bis-bisnonna e io andammo a stare appena sposati dava sulle cascatelle [...] Aveva pavimenti di legno e finestre magnifiche e spazio sufficiente per una famiglia numerosa. Era una...
Jonathan Safran Foer’s 10 Rules for Writing:1.Tragedies make great literature; unfathomable catastrophes (the Holocaust, 9/11) are even better – try to construct your books around them for added gravi...
I’d experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, h...
It's not a horrible word! He told me, putting a Cambodian mask on his face , But it's filled with a lot of horrible people!