Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAnd she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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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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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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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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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 wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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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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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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