You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them… — 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
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
