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
ifs
If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.
god-exists ifs
If god exists, he is not to be believed in.
spending getting-to-know-each-other ifs
What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?
answers ifs
If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?
thinking convinced ifs
As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.
needs needed ifs
I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.
what-if ifs inventing
What if I never stop inventing?
compromise almost-there ifs
There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.
annoying willing ifs
I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
protect wanted ifs
I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.
reason surviving ifs
[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.
ifs
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
prayer memories ifs
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
misunderstood ifs
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.