There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run… — 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