We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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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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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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