Songs are as sad as the listener.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSongs are as sad as the listener.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERLet love write on you for awhile.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhile 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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERA 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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFeathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERYou can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe 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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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