The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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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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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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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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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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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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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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