Quotes from Jonathan Safran Foer

Hiçbir ÅŸeyi özlediÄŸin bir ÅŸeyden daha fazla sevemezsin.

Every year, wildfires in California create more greenhouse gas emissions than the state's progressive environmental policies save.

We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

But unlike all farmed meat, which requires the creation and maintenance of animals, dogs are practically begging to be eaten. Three to four million dogs and cats are euthanized annually. This amounts to millions of pounds of meat now being thrown away every year.

How do children do that? Jacob wondered. Not only enter rooms silently, but at the worst possible moment.

I thought about packing my bags, I thought about jumping out a window, I sat on the bed and thought, I thought about you. What kind of food did you life, what was your favorite song, who was the first girl you kissed, and where, and how, I'm running out of room, I want an infinitely long blank book and forever.

Its so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever get me?

I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

We all have a set number of days to indent the world with our beliefs, to find and create the beauty that only a finite existence allows for, to wrestle with the question of purpose and wrestle with our answers.

Without love, you die. With love, you also die. Not all deaths are equal.

Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, "you are farming by proxy.

And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else.

he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.

Sitting with her now, rehearsing the horrible conversation, Jacob wondered if maybe, all those years, he had misunderstood the spaces surrounding Julia: her quiet, her steps back. Maybe they weren't buffers of defense, but of the most extreme humility, the purest generosity. What if she wasn't withdrawing, but beckoning? Or both at the same time? Withdrawing and beckoning? And more to the point: making a world for their children, even for Jacob.

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

I would give everything never to think about her again, I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes (those we need to see dim objects) are on the edges of the region we normally use for focusing. Eating animals has an invisible quality. Thinking about dogs, and their relationship to the animals we eat, is one way of looking askance and making something invisible visible.

In the emptiness of evenings, serious and unequivocal, he would say: "How beautiful is forgetting! what relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents!

Make us better than we are. Make us good.

Nothing- not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug- establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together.

Our minds and hearts are well built to perform certain tasks, and poorly designed for others. We are good at things like calculating the path of a hurricane, and bad at things like deciding to get out of its way.

well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!