Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Quotes

• “If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft,...”
• “It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or w...”
• “I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your ...”
• “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. ...”
• “The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop ...”
• “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 unde...”
• “She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate s...”
• “I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.”
• “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
• “I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”
• “I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
• “I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
• “With writing, we have second chances.”
• “...and when is enough proof enough?”