Jonathan Safran Foer quotes - page 4

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
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. View quote
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Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does. View quote
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me? View quote
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me. View quote
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you. View quote
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She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. View quote
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With writing, we have second chances. View quote
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. View quote
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I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness. View quote
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There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Mom told me, "It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don't you think?” I told her, "It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone. View quote
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But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood. View quote
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time? View quote
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I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering. View quote
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Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake! View quote
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected. View quote
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... because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope. View quote
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Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed. View quote
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love? View quote
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
It's hard to say goodbye to the place you've lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person. View quote
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She is deranged, but so so playful. View quote
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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. View quote
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[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway. View quote
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