But 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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
-
-
Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER