“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
Source: Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer: Doing
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“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
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 am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 43
"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
“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
“Do you have any coffee?'…'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close