My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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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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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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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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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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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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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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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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