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Jonathan Safran Foer QUOTES

Jonathan Safran Foer QUOTES

1 " I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

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

― Jonathan Safran Foer

3 " If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

4 " In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

5 " 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 "

― Jonathan Safran Foer

6 " Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

7 " I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

8 " 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. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

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

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

10 " Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release...

So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love--loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer

11 " 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. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

12 " She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

13 " (What are your ghosts like?)
(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)
(This is also where my ghosts reside.)
(You have ghosts?)
(Of course I have ghosts.)
(But you are a child.)
(I am not a child.)
(But you have not known love.)
(These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.) "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

14 " Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

15 " Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

16 " It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

17 " I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer

18 " I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

19 " I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

20 " The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close