We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.
Jonathan Safran FoerHe promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
Jonathan Safran FoerGrandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
Jonathan Safran FoerBrod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.
Jonathan Safran Foer