Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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 the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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