Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREvery moment before this one depends on this one.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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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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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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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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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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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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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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