Said Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

23 Said quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Foer has a knack for turning everyday observations into something larger. In these 23 snippets you’ll see the moments he decided to put his thoughts into words, each a small window into his literary curiosity.

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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

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“She is deranged,” I said, “but so so playful.”

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Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

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The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!

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“I have been waiting for you for so long.” I pointed to the car. “We are searching for Trachimbrod.” “Oh,” she said…

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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…

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She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what…

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I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how…

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I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do…

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She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by…

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Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he…

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Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his…

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Can’t you even tell me if I’m on the right track?" Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. "But if you…

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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust…

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...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me…

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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would…

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I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with…

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In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of…

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Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had…

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What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to…

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I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have…

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(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You…

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He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and…

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