By Jonathan Safran Foer
A truly excellent read. Here are some of my favorite quotes:
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.”
“We slept in the same bed.
There was never a right time to say it.
It was always unnecessary.
The books in my father's shed were sighing.
The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing.
I thought about waking her.
but it was unnecessary.
There would be other nights.
And how can you say I love you to someone you love?
I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her.
Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you...
It's always necessary."
"It's the tragedy of loving. You can't love anything more than something you miss."
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