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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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 bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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