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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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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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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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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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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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