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Everything Is Illuminated QUOTES

Everything Is Illuminated 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 " 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

3 " 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

4 " 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

5 " 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

6 " (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

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

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

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

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

9 " 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

10 " 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. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

11 " I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

12 " I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

13 " (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)

(You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.)

(And you are deserving of shame?)

(I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.'

'Why is this stupid?'

'Because there are not things to believe in.'

(Love?)

(There is no love. Only the end of love.)

(Goodness?)

(Do not be a fool.)

(God?)

(If God exists, He is not to be believed in.) "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

14 " It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

15 " ...and when is enough proof enough? "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

16 " With writing, we have second chances. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

17 " Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad. Eran solo cosas, prisioneras de su propia esencia. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

18 " From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes.

In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

19 " AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST? "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated

20 " If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word. "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated