“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
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
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I beg you, no matter what happens, no matter where you go in life or how many millions you make, no matter… — 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
“Life overflows with imperfections, but some matter more than others” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to… — 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
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“[...] I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life [...]” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Death is the only thing in life that you absolutely have to be aware of as it's happening.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a man whose life was so good there's no story to tell about it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time the dominant ethic toward domestic animals, rooted in the demands of husbandry and responding to the fundamental problem… — 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
