Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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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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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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