Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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I 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.
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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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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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What does it remember like?
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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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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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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