In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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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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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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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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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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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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