I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSilently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether 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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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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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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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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