More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."
"Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written."
"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"
"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."
"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you."