Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFood 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.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t 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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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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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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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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