Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it… — 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
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly… — 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
“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
“There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I got incerdibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“(American farmers are four times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.)” — 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
