It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROne hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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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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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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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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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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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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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