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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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