"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, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."
"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 calendar 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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future."
"I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me."
All words from the incredible mind of Jonathan Safran Foer. Images: 1. unknown 2. Kate Macdowell 3. Naoko Ito. 4. Wai Lin Tse 5. Debbie Carlos
2 comments:
Your post are always do beautiful it makes me weak. The bird lungs, tree jars, fluff on hands.aaah perfect!! xx.x
thankyou, but it's not me that makes them beautiful..it's the people who take those pictures and write those words! i just put them together. :)
ps if you haven't read any jonathan safran foer, I highly suggest you do..I think you would love his work x
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