She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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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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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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