My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNot responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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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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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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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.
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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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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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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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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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