She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERYou are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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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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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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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