She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhy does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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 dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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