Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes about Joy

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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

Jonathan Safran Foer

Years, Joy, Hundred

And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice

Jonathan Safran Foer

Giving, Joy, Grandfather

I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing, Heart, Joy

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Girl, Joy, Wish

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt