It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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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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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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