Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

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

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

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.

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

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

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.

Songs are as sad as the listener.