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
definitions done constrain
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
leaving down-and faces
...he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me. I wanted to hold his shoulders down and shout into his face.
fearless sound passing
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
boots matter life-is
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
our-love affliction cures
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
here-i-am able too-much
I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.
mending explaining
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
grandma grandmother cooking
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
making-love bears absence
He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.
enough proof
...and when is enough proof enough?
turkeys torture
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
snow four schmucks
The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.
challenges enough food-safety
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
goodbye persons hard
It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.