I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some 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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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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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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