I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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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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What does it remember like?
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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