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Джонатан Сафран Фоер — американский писатель еврейского происхождения.

✵ 21. Февраль 1977
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“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Вариант: We stopped laughing, I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?
Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 71

“With writing, we have second chances.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 279

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Контексте: "You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.)

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Eating Animals

Источник: Eating Animals

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Oskar's grandmother to his grandfather after she told him of her pregnancy.
"My Feelings" (p. 180)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close