"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with."
"Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised."
"I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."
Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) submitted by: athousandthoughtsperminute (via
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"Everybody’s born knowing all the Beatles lyrics instinctively. They’re passed into the fetus subconsciously along with all the amniotic stuff. Fact, they should be called ‘The Fetals’."