In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Everyone performs bad actions. I do. Father does. Even you do. A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And when she said, Father, I love you , she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“she saw through the shell of me into the center of me … She went home with her father, the center of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more… — 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
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The twins hid their bodies under their father’s tallis, like ghosts. The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than… — 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
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The dream that we are our fathers. I walked to the Brod, 41 without knowing why, and looked into my reflection in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But he also knew that there is an inflationary aspect to love, and that should his mother, or Rose, or any of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“When we found each other, I was very flabbergasted by his appearance. This is an American? I thought. And also, This is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents… — 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
