I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
Jonathan Safran FoerIt is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.
Jonathan Safran FoerWhy is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
Jonathan Safran Foer...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.
Jonathan Safran Foer