I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhy are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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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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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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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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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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