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While 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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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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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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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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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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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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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