“Dad used to say that sometimes you have to put your fears in order...” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She took the paper from Yankel's hand, which was damp with rain, and fear of death, and death. Scrawled in a child's… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose;… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Grief and loss are probably the most fearful creatures that exist. But loss shouldn't be a fearful creature. It should be a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about a device that knew everyone you knew? So when an ambulance went down the street, a big sign on the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you? Are bonsai… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
