My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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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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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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