Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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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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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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