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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt 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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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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