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
doors keys able
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.
eyelashes chests
She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.
hands silence broke
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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.
hoarding release felt
She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.
rooms share conversation
It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
hands time-passing wanted
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
imposter recognizing
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.
bored waiting darkness
Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.
sometimes bones feels
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining
kindness exercise compassion
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
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?
compassion imagination fundamentals
What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?