But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Highs 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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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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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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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She 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.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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