We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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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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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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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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