Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhile it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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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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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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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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When 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.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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