- D'après toi, pourquoi es-tu ici, Oskar ?
- Je suis ici, docteur, parce que maman est inquiète que la vie me mette devant des difficultés insurmontables.
- Est-ce qu'elle a raison de s'inquiéter ?
- Pas vraiment. La vie est une difficulté insurmontable.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
Jonathan Safran FoerYou are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: love
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.
Jonathan Safran FoerIf we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story?
Tags: animal-rights cruelty
[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.
Jonathan Safran FoerI realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
Jonathan Safran FoerHe looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: mistakes imposters look-alike
I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?
Jonathan Safran FoerI used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
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