I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhen I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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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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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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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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