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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Better Car Force Home Media Parents Point Politics
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Grow Up Worst
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
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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Appearance Himself Night Sleep Steal
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
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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Break Up Bury Himself Leaving Live Myself Try Writing
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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Dictionary People Photograph Yourself
Let love write on you for awhile.
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Love Sex Writing Yourself
You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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Word Yourself
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Bird Herself Laughter Migrate
It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Hard Live Person Place Travel
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Day Experience Hope Love Understand Willing Yourself

She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

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