Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
"I 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."
Jonathan Safran Foer"I hope you never love anything as much as I love you. (p. 73)"
Jonathan Safran Foer"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives Im not living. (p. 113)"
Jonathan Safran Foer"She wants to know if I love her, thats all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. (p. 130)"
Jonathan Safran Foer"Words never mean what we want them to mean."
Jonathan Safran Foer"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me. (p. 181)"
Jonathan Safran Foer
