“Nothing- not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug- establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Herschel was a Jew." "And he was my best friend." "He was his best friend." "And I murdered him.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“When I was nine, I had a babysitter who didn't want to hurt anything. She put it just like that when I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine three days yore, so that he should be appraised of the many positions in which I am carnal. 'This is sixty-nine,' I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers--two of them--on the action, so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my… — 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 —on the action, so that he would not overlook it. “Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?” he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. “It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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
“Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more and more string, as if letting kites… — 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 felt like crying. We could not look at each other. It always had to be from behind. Like that first time. And I knew he wasn't thinking of me. He squeezed my sides so hard, and… — 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 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
![“When I was nine, I had a babysitter who didn't want to hurt anything. She put it just like that when I asked her why she wasn't having chicken with my older brother and me: "I don't want to hurt anything." [...] What our babysitter said made sense to me, not only because it seemed true, but…” quote by Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c17/jonathan-safran-foer-136_family_when-i-was-nine-i-had-a-babysitter-who-d_3228667.jpg)
