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 FOERI am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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 regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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What does it remember like?
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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