Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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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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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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 was more alone than if I had been alone.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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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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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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