The end of suffering does not justify the suffering
Jonathan Safran FoerIt was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
Jonathan Safran FoerI did not feel that he owed it to me. And I did not feel like I owed it to him. We owed it to each other, which is something different.
Jonathan Safran FoerShe told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad not-truths, even, but he nodded, and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of the story is always an absence and he wanted to live among presences.
Jonathan Safran FoerHe was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could you recommend.
Jonathan Safran FoerFrom where she is, the page- her paper-thin future-is infinitely heavy.
Jonathan Safran FoerHe would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depress the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too real chest, making his widower's remembrances that much more convincing and the pain that much more real.
Jonathan Safran FoerShe felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.
Jonathan Safran FoerShe 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.
Jonathan Safran FoerI like to see people
reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each
other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth
can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the
change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone
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