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People with nothing to declare carry the most.

Jonathan Safran Foer

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Children Deep Family Father Lying Myself Parents Promise
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
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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Day Oneself Start Worst
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?
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Imagination Love Time Togetherness Touch
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Goodness Hope People Time Yourself
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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Bury Communication Hide Himself Hurt Myself Word
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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Break Up Bury Himself Leaving Live Myself Try Writing
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song

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