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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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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Heart Meaning Myself People Pieces Word
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Imagination Love Time Togetherness Touch
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Leave Meaning Myself River Start Thinking Tree
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Bone Hear Live Myself Time Weight
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
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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Appearance Himself Night Sleep Steal
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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Comfortable Experience Organization Scare Word
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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Dreams End Eyes Myself Person World
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
Only humans can cry tears.
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Cry Human Tears
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself

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