Jonathan Safran Foer quotes
Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do. 
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. 
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. 
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. 
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go! 
I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. 
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. Jonathan Safran Foer Life quotes ⇑
Life Quotes
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. 
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. 
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. All Jonathan Safran Foer quotes ⇑
With writing, we have second chances.
He 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.
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?
'Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.'
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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.
"Why are you leaving me?" He wrote, "I do not know how to live." "I do not know either but I am trying." "I do not know how to try." There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them and let them hurt me
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?