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Wanted Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do…
- 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 him, becuase I…
- ...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with…
- There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
- I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words…
- We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't…
- I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
- Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as…
- Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human…
- She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk…
- I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead…
- Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they…
- I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.
- She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.
- I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.
- Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.
- I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a…
- Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
- I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.
- I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.
- ...he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me.…
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