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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer
Tree of Codes
Jonathan Safran FoerFamous Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
Source: Eating Animals
“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 309
“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes about love
“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 73
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 216
“I did not need to know if he could love me.
I needed to know if he could need me.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes about life
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 153
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I felt that night, on the stage, 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? (p. 145)
Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
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Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 224
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 113
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 99
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. (p. 17)
“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
Variant: The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 74
“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Every moment before this one depends on this one.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 43
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 130
“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208
“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“he came to think, It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Variant: She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”
Variant: We stopped laughing, I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 71
“With writing, we have second chances.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
