I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERYou do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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