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?
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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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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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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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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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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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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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.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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