When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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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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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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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The 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.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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