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“People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
― jonathan safran foer

“I never confused what I had with what I was.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“I did not need to know if he could love me.
I needed to know if he could need me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“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 Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“But unlike all farmed meat, which requires the creation and maintenance of animals, dogs are practically begging to be eaten. Three to four million dogs and cats are euthanized annually. This amounts to millions of pounds of meat now being thrown away every year.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.”
― jonathan safran foer, Everything is Illuminated

“For how long could we fail until we surrendered?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I was more alone than if I had been alone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close