“I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right.”

“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.”

“I've always wondered . . . what if it really was Him, and He decided I wasn't worth it?”

“I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more.”

“I was wondering why I wasn't getting the right answers. It was then I realized that I wasn't asking the right people.”

“In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.”