There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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