I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERYou are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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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 had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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