It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERLet love write on you for awhile.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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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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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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 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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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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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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