I was more alone than if I had been alone.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAlso, 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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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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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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