The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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 looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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What does it remember like?
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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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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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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