I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in… — 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
I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with… — 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
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
