Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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