From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and… — 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
“She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..” — 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
He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“This was the world in which she grew and he aged. They made for themselves a sanctuary from Trachimbrod, a habitat completely… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — 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
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“So, then why am I your son?" "Because Mom and I made love, and one of my sperm fertilized one of her… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“... His arm was so thick and strong. I was sure it would protect me for as long as I lived. And… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself… — jonathan safran foer Copy Share Image
It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favourite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of… — 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
