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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIs that growing old? Or is it something worse?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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