"Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"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 (via She was a Hurricane.)

"When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"But I still couldn’t figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence"

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"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."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"Nothing is beautiful and true."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my thoughts lighter."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"She always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?"

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"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 (via She was a Hurricane.)