When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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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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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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