Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foeris an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and for his non-fiction work Eating Animals. He teaches creative writing at New York University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 February 1977
CountryUnited States of America
comforting kind harder
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
meat vegetarian casts
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
vegetarianism choices made
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
making-love firsts doe
It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?
good-night hurt morning
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.
confusing experts should
She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.
rooms share conversation
It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
stones empty pitcher
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
spending getting-to-know-each-other ifs
What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?
grandma grandmother cooking
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
turkeys torture
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
happenings
Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.
wanted
I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.
shells saws
She saw through the shell of me into the center of me