“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Quotes from book
Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2002. It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz in 2005.
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“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: Everything Is Illuminated
“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Context: "You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.)
“Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
