Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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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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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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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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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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