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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThis is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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What does it remember like?
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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You 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.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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