Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame. — Jonathan Safran Foer
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer. — Jonathan Safran Foer
[…]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive. — Jonathan Safran Foer
[Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he — Jonathan Safran Foer
I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself. — Jonathan Safran Foer