Jonathan Safran Foer: Trending quotes (page 4)

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”

“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”

“Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me”

“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.”

“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.”

“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

“With writing, we have second chances.”

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

“I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.”

“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”

“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”

“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”

“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”

“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”

“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”

“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”