If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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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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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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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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Why 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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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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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.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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 imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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