In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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