“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“ he came to think, It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say ”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“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“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer