She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It’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.
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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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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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 are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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