It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the… — 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
“But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient” — 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
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
Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“omnivores contribute seven times the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.” — 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
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
“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 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
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
“Martin Luther King Jr. wrote passionately about the time when “one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings,… — 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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time... ...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was 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
From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if she knows, I wonder in my Nothingest moments if she's testing me, if she types nonsense all day… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Dad?' 'Yeah?' 'Could you tell me a story?' 'Sure.' 'A good one.' 'As opposed to all the boring ones I tell.' 'Right.'… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to my grandmother... and asked her to write a letter. I hardly knew her. I didn't have any interest in… — 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
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
“A lot of the time I'd get that feeling like I was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in… — 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
“The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same… — 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
“Once upon a time the dominant ethic toward domestic animals, rooted in the demands of husbandry and responding to the fundamental problem… — 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
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. — 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
“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
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in… — 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
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
“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
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“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
“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
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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 that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
