She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERLet love write on you for awhile.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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 hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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