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Quotes from Everything Is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer

born 1977 United States

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5 quotes

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

"I used to tuck her … but now she tucked my feelings into the woven arteries of my veins."

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Safran Foer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.