This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhy does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
-
-
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
With writing, we have second chances.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER -
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER