She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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What does it remember like?
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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