Outlive Us All

"But it can often feel that the luxury of time has been accompanied by a heightened, commensurate craving for love: Part of the modern condition is wondering who might love us and how that love might be more perfectly expressed, and animals’ new duty is to answer both of those problems, to make this loneliest of ages feel a little less lonely."

--The New York Times, "A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All," by Hanya Yanagihara