The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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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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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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I 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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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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