There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine. Jonathan Safran Foer heartbeat dark people I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong. Jonathan Safran Foer done animal thinking Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. Jonathan Safran Foer bones feels sometimes Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father Jonathan Safran Foer love-you writing father I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you. Jonathan Safran Foer would-be beautiful people Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there. Jonathan Safran Foer causes doe world If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it. Jonathan Safran Foer ifs She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love. Jonathan Safran Foer everything-is-illuminated She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. Jonathan Safran Foer telescopes powerful mirrors I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me. Jonathan Safran Foer might children past So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire body had to be rebronzed every month. He was a changing god, Jonathan Safran Foer kissing wish believe Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. Jonathan Safran Foer beautiful book reality Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents. Jonathan Safran Foer knowledgeable parent children What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood. Jonathan Safran Foer meat-industry block animal I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. Jonathan Safran Foer pessimistic optimistic thinking People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little. Jonathan Safran Foer feelings littles people It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me. Jonathan Safran Foer hard knows Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat. Jonathan Safran Foer retreat celebrate technology And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much as there do we feel possibilities shaken by the nearness of realization. The atmosphere becomes possibilities and we shall wander and make a thousand mistakes. We shall wander along yet not be able to understand. Jonathan Safran Foer atmosphere mistake tree If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it? Jonathan Safran Foer ifs answers
