Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhen I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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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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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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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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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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