When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHe 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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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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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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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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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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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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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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