There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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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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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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