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.
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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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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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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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