There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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