“He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..” — 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
“Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with… — 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
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get… — 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… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You… — 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
Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and… — 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
