I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROne day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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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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