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 FOERWhy does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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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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What does it remember like?
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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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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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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.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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