But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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