I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFeathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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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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