We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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 can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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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 never confused what I had with what I was.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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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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