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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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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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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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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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