She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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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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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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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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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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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 got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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