It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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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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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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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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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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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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