Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are only so many times that you can utter 'It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt more than the… — 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
I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in… — 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
“I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long… — 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
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
It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“omnivores contribute seven times the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.” — 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
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of… — 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
“Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, “you are farming by proxy.” — 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
