She saw through the shell of me into the center of me Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that's not true. They look like little people. And the cars look like little cars. And even the buildings look little. It's like New York is a miniature replica of New York, which is nice, because you can see what it's really like, instead of how it feels when you're in the middle of it. Jonathan Safran Foer nice new-york beautiful It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for another five hours, but I can't help feeling that we're sharing this clear and beautiful morning. Jonathan Safran Foer air morning beautiful Why I'm not where you are ... Jonathan Safran Foer where-you-are The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him. Jonathan Safran Foer girl baby fall And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice Jonathan Safran Foer grandfather joy giving I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. Jonathan Safran Foer beautiful sports father Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame. Jonathan Safran Foer shame feels people Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death. Jonathan Safran Foer afraid-of-death growth coffee I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat Jonathan Safran Foer boots wish play Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore? Jonathan Safran Foer one-day numbers people Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse. Jonathan Safran Foer my-children knows children Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you. Jonathan Safran Foer your-dad dad able Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them. Jonathan Safran Foer sign-sayings animal Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true. Jonathan Safran Foer sad song beautiful You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist. Jonathan Safran Foer nice would-be beautiful I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next. Jonathan Safran Foer pads next paper Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war. Jonathan Safran Foer kissing animal war I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me. Jonathan Safran Foer differences personality thinking Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed. Jonathan Safran Foer matter sometimes way I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. Jonathan Safran Foer being-sad one-day might
