We spent our lives making livings. Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons. Jonathan Safran Foer moron patient trying It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music. Jonathan Safran Foer sad-music made song i couldn't speak the language of his feelings Jonathan Safran Foer language speak feelings That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there. Jonathan Safran Foer want love-is In the end, everyone loses everyone. Jonathan Safran Foer loses ends How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents. Jonathan Safran Foer relief would-be beautiful She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be. Jonathan Safran Foer confusing should experts Nothing is beautiful and true. Jonathan Safran Foer beautiful You have to do something bad to do something good. Jonathan Safran Foer The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless. Jonathan Safran Foer fool suffering doe Sometimes one simply wants to disappear. Jonathan Safran Foer disappear want sometimes She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. Jonathan Safran Foer hoarding release felt I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news. Jonathan Safran Foer heart writing joy It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals. Jonathan Safran Foer responsibility animal children She saw through the shell of me into the center of me Jonathan Safran Foer shells saws "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside 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 the outside." Jonathan Safran Foer differences persons personality Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love. Jonathan Safran Foer hurt loss children Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either. Jonathan Safran Foer things-to-do persons hero You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again. Jonathan Safran Foer want said Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. Jonathan Safran Foer return heard
