Jonathan Safran Foer citáty

„Všechno je takové, jaké je, protože všechno bylo takové, jaké bylo.“

„Na tom, že si nerozumíte, není nic špatného.“

„Je škoda, že musíme žít, ale je tragédie, že můžeme žít jen jeden život.“

„Nereagování je také reakce - jsme stejně zodpovědní za to, co neuděláme.“

„Proč nejsem tam, kde jsi ty?“

„Netoužila po ničem víc než po komsi, kdo by jí mohl scházet, koho by se mohla dotýkat, s nímž by si mohla dětinsky povídat, s kým by mohla být dítětem.“

„Ona vždycky viděla do něj a skrz něj, jako by byl okno. Vždycky cítila, že o něm ví všechno, co se vědět dá - ne protože by byl prostý, ale protože je poznatelný, asi jako nákupní seznam nebo jako encyklopedie.“

„Vzpomínka měla vyplnit čas, ale udělala z času díru, kterou bylo třeba zaplnit.“

„Chyby, které jsem udělal, jsou pro mě mrtvé. Ale nemohu vzít zpět věci, které jsem nikdy neudělal.“

„Dokážu ti odpustit, že jsi odešel, ale ne, že ses vrátil.“

„Dělám pro tebe něco, co nesnáším. Tohle znamená být zamilovaný.“

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”

“She was not crying
Which surprised me very much
But I understand now
That she had found places
For her melancholy
That were behind more masks
Than only her eyes”

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

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”

“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!”

“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.”

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”

“I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.”

“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”

“Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.”

“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”

“I never confused what I had with what I was.”

“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?”

“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.”

“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”

“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.”

“I did not need to know if he could love me.
I needed to know if he could need me.”

“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.”

“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.”

“She has become an expert at confusingwithwithwith.”

“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”

“Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”