Only humans can cry tears.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThere’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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I 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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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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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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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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What does it remember like?
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some 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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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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