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
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.
book blank
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...
trying patient moron
Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.
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.
silly hunting animal
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.
long path crosses
It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.
dog cat reptiles
I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn’t come back
lonely people wonder
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
everything-is-illuminated
She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
powerful mirrors telescopes
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
children past might
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
differences personality persons
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.