I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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 wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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What does it remember like?
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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 think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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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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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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