We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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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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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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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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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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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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