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?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREvery 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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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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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