It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREvery factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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