If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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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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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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What does it remember like?
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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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There were 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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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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