Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Only a few months into our marriage, we started marking off areas in the apartment as "Nothing Places," in which one could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If I'd been somone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I hit the spacebar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But not even to save your life?” “If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“i thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, i thought… — jonathan safran foer Copy Share Image
“The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Don't you find that strange? I can't believe I never found it strange before. It's like your name, how you don't notice… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.… — 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
