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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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