Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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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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Feathers 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?
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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