I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“ We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe… — 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
This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them… — 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
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the… — 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