Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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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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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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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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