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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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