"Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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