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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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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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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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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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