I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI 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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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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