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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhile 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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