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She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily. View quote
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For how long could we fail until we surrendered? View quote
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Sometimes one simply wants to disappear. View quote
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That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there. View quote
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Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing. View quote
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People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying. View quote
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else. View quote
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do... I am not a hero, it is true... But I am not a bad person, either. View quote
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I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second. View quote
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She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of. View quote
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend. View quote
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What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife. View quote
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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. View quote
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I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. View quote
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They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her. View quote
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I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up. View quote
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Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn't exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad. View quote
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it. View quote
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And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love". (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us. View quote
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What if I never stop inventing? View quote
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They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life. View quote
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We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames. View quote
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