Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Not 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.
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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?
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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