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
talking important particular
We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...
tears cry cry-tears
Only humans can cry tears.
order sometimes
...sometimes you have to put your fears in order...
ifs
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
being-sad knows everything-is-illuminated
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
loses
It is better to lose than never to have had.
writing heart joy
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.
morning grateful eye
He Wrote, Are you OK? I told him, My eyes are crummy. He wrote, But are you OK? I told him, That's a very complicated question. He wrote, That's a very simple answer. I asked, Are you OK? He wrote, Some mornings I wake up feeling grateful.
ears wanted
I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.
stupid wife not-stupid
I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.
beautiful song dad
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.
happenings
Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.
firsts loud made
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
wanted
I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.