Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

“(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)(You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deservin...”

“I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.”

“My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.”

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

“Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small caf one hour distance from our home. She presents food and drink to customers there, and says to me, "I mount the autobus for an ho...”

“...and when is enough proof enough?”

“With writing, we have second chances.”

“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.”

“Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with t...”

“I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?”

“Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.”

“No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time”

“If Id been someone else in a different world Id've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.”

“God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them." God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from wh...”

“As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.”

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

“I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for...”

“Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutcula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pauelo... Nada la conmova. (...) Nada consegua ser ms de lo que era en realidad. Era...”

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”

“Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”