It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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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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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 was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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