She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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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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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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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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