Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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What does it remember like?
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