Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering. Jonathan Safran Foer ends suffering doe ...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope. Jonathan Safran Foer waiting doors might In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots. Jonathan Safran Foer new-york sleep morning They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her. Jonathan Safran Foer hate-her untouchability hate The end of the world has come often, and continues to come. Jonathan Safran Foer end-of-the-world ends world From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible. Jonathan Safran Foer confused couple eye (What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.) Jonathan Safran Foer space eye children Cher Marcel, Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious why Oskar should go to French lessons, so he will no longer be going to go see you on Sundays like he used to. I want to thank you very much for everything you have taught Oskar, particularly the conditional tense, which is weird. Obviously, there's no need to call me when Oskar doesn't come to his lessons, because I already know, because this was my decision. Also, I will keep sending you checks, because you are a nice guy. Votre ami dévouée, Mademoiselle Schell. Jonathan Safran Foer sunday nice mom In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created. Jonathan Safran Foer faces water father Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting. Jonathan Safran Foer growing-up real kids I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. Jonathan Safran Foer choices vegetarianism made I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God. Jonathan Safran Foer hard-times want thinking I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. Jonathan Safran Foer harder kind comforting Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? Jonathan Safran Foer rudy times-square squares It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. Jonathan Safran Foer thumbs mouths seems It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. Jonathan Safran Foer hunting humans sports Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing. Jonathan Safran Foer meals kind silly The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. Jonathan Safran Foer changed inspire thinking There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to. Jonathan Safran Foer fulfilled just-say-no way Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. Jonathan Safran Foer habit identity culture
