Jonathan Safran Foer: Trending quotes

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.”

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

“She was not crying
Which surprised me very much
But I understand now
That she had found places
For her melancholy
That were behind more masks
Than only her eyes”

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of my death, that it will happen again an infinite number of times, that we will meet, marry, have our children, succeed in the ways we have, fail in the ways we have, all exactly the same, always unable to change a thing. I am again at the bottom of an unstoppable wheel, and when I feel my eyes close for death, as they have and will a thousand times, I awake.”

“My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.”

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”

“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was”

“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.”

“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”

“I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.”

“Why I'm Not Where You Are”

“She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes”

“We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things…”

“The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.”

“Every moment before this one depends on this one.”

“Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.”

“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”