I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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What does it remember like?
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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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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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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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.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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