Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
—Jonathan Safran Foer
Topics: How to Live
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
—Jonathan Safran Foer
Topics: Future
I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
—Jonathan Safran Foer
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