Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERYou cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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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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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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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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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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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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