They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if she knows, I wonder in my Nothingest moments if she's testing me, if she types nonsense all day… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water. It was terrible at first. We couldn't stand to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It is best if the guard is in love with America and wants to overawe the American by being a premium guard.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He knew that I love you also means I love you more than anyone else loves you, or has loved you, or… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The dream that we are our fathers. I walked to the Brod, 41 without knowing why, and looked into my reflection in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But he also knew that there is an inflationary aspect to love, and that should his mother, or Rose, or any of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of her making love to someone… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I asked him did he really love New York or was he just wearing the shirt. He smiled, like he was nervous.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“How many times, in those first weeks, did he enter the room and stand by the door, unable to speak? How many… — 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
