Grandfather informs me that is not possible. Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer Years were passing through the spaces between moments. Jonathan Safran Foer space moments years I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary. Jonathan Safran Foer willing annoying ifs Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change. Jonathan Safran Foer agriculture numbers animal I'd lost count of the disappointments. Jonathan Safran Foer disappointment lost They do not desire anything more than everything they have known. Jonathan Safran Foer known desire We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. Jonathan Safran Foer pockets cities people ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist. (Everything that has been made has been made with a purpose, teverything with an end exists outside of that thing, i.e., "I want to sell this", or "I want this to make me famous and loved", or "I want this to make me whole", or worse, "I want this to make others whole.") And yet we continue to write, paint, sculpt and compose. Is this foolish of us? Jonathan Safran Foer successful writing art We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you. Jonathan Safran Foer father book fall I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer life-learning growing sadness When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible. Jonathan Safran Foer bad-things made Love...is the immovability of truth. Jonathan Safran Foer love-is The gift is for you...The surprise is for me. Jonathan Safran Foer surprise But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you. Jonathan Safran Foer trying world I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to. Jonathan Safran Foer want looks way [Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it was only funnies because she would laugh in volumes. 'Anna,' he would say, 'I am going to marry that one with the pink hat.' And she would say, 'To whom are you going to marry her?' And he would say, 'To me.' I would laugh very much in the back seat, and she would say to him, 'But you are no priest.' And he would say, 'I am today.' And she would say, 'Today you believe in God?' And he would say, 'Today I believe in love. Jonathan Safran Foer grandmother laughing believe 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 atheist reason mean What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake? Jonathan Safran Foer interpreting awake dream When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you. Jonathan Safran Foer dictionary look-up looks I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. Jonathan Safran Foer eye stories blue I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up. Jonathan Safran Foer broken hurt sleep
