The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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What does it remember like?
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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 wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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There were 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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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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