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Songs are as sad as the listener.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Music, Song, Sadness
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Boots, Minutes, Heavy
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Would Be, World, Wonder
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Eyelashes, Chests
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Sweet, Thinking, Two
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Memories, Distance, Two

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Balzac
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Morning, Memories, Shadow
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let love write on you for awhile.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Writing
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Animal, Likes

I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Dog, Animal, Civilization
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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

Jonathan Safran Foer
Atheist, Believe, Challenges
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

Jonathan Safran Foer
Dog, Horse, Tired
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!

Jonathan Safran Foer
Meat, Doe, Sausage

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Writing, Boots, Letters
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Wish, Lines, Chalk
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Memories, Past, Sides
"Everything Is Illuminated". www.imdb.com. October 14, 2005.

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Way

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Truthful, Being Truthful, Please
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Music, Vocabulary, Misunderstood

Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone

Jonathan Safran Foer
Mom, Lonely, Grandma
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

Jonathan Safran Foer
Animal, Looks, Plates
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Challenges, Enough, Food Safety
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Turkeys, Torture

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

Jonathan Safran Foer
World, Do You Like Me, Like Me
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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