“It is better to lose than never to have had.”

“I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember”

“People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body, and can’t escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It’s wrong. They feel their slaughters. It’s wrong, and people know it’s wrong. They don’t have to be convinced. They just have to act differently. I’m not better than anyone, and I’m not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what’s right. I’m trying to convince them to live by their own.”

“No, I do not like music. (But what she really was trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.)”

“I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.”

“I was more alone than if I had been alone.”

“I never confused what I had with what I was.”