Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHighs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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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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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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