She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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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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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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Silently 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.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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