Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I have witnessed Grandfather cry, and I implore myself to say that I desire to never witness him cry again. If this… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
[Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It [the trip] captured five very long hours. If you want to know why, it is because Grandfather is Grandfather first and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Grandfather interrogates me about you every day. He desires to know if you forgive him for the things he told you about… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share