It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFood serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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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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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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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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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