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.
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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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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 extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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