Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am Quotes
Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.
So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.
Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.
No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time
So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other? How had all the presence summed to disappearance?
He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.
she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
