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Jonathan Safran Foer quotes

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“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.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Nothing is beautiful and true.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I'm sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I don't eat anything with parents.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Ghosts don't care if you believe in them” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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