I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFeathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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