Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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