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 This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive. Jonathan Safran Foer touchinghearthands I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? Jonathan Safran Foer skullsdreamnight Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming. Jonathan Safran Foer ninety-ninelandanimal I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me? Jonathan Safran Foer do-you-like-melike-meworld We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. Jonathan Safran Foer our-loveafflictionfire I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits. Jonathan Safran Foer piehairtalking I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots. Jonathan Safran Foer heavyminutesboots Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love? Jonathan Safran Foer making-lovetogetherdoe A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter. Jonathan Safran Foer bootsletterswriting Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction. Jonathan Safran Foer sweettwothinking She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary. Jonathan Safran Foer fallenfalling-in-loveordinary I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares. Jonathan Safran Foer pawsfeelingsnight 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 not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me Jonathan Safran Foer leavinghurttrying I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat! Jonathan Safran Foer sausagemeatdoe Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society. Jonathan Safran Foer easytryingway Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected. Jonathan Safran Foer casesprotect-youneeds I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me. Jonathan Safran Foer neighborhooddifferentremember If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word. Jonathan Safran Foer misunderstoodvocabularymusic I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty. Jonathan Safran Foer wantboysthinking Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach. Jonathan Safran Foer horizontomorrow
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