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.
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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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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This 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.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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