Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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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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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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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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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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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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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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