Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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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?
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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.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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