“She would say to him, “But you are no priest.” And he would say, “I am today.” And she would say, “Today… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She laughed, I love it when she laughs, although the truth is I am not in love with her.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water. It was terrible at first. We couldn't stand to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If there's no love in the world, we will make a new world and we will give it heavy walls, and we… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls.” — 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
“Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches.… — 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
I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Love me, because love does not exist, and I tried everything.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Her 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
“How many times, in those first weeks, did he enter the room and stand by the door, unable to speak? How many… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Jacob was right when, after Sam’s injury, he said it was too much love for happiness.” — 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
“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to… — 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
“What's it about? she asked. It's about love. She laughed. They're all about love.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love". — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing… — 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
