Let love write on you for awhile.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIf we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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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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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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