Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROnly humans can cry tears.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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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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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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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