We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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