Let love write on you for awhile.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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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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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.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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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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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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