Anne Carson // Jonathan Safran Foer
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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He knew that I love you also means 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
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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
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
Jonathan Safran Foer; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“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
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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
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girlhood calcifying into this bruised adulthood.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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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
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Because once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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