Jonathan Safran Foer citáty

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„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.“

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”

“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”

“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”

“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.”

“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.”

“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

“With writing, we have second chances.”

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

“I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.”

“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”

“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”

“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”

“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.”

“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”

“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”

“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”

“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”

“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”

“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”

“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”

“Words never mean what we want them to mean.”

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.”

“If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.”

“I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“… 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.”

“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.”

“Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.”

“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.”