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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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