God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them." God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? The animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Her learning to sew (from a book Yankee brought back from Lvov) coincided with her refusal to wear any clothes that she did not make for herself, and when he bought her a book about animal physiology, she held the pictures to his face and said, "Don’t you think it’s strange, Yankee, how we eat them?"" I’ve never eaten a picture."" The animals. Don’t you find that strange? I can’t believe I never found it strange before. It’s like your name, how you don’t notice it for so long, but when you finally do, you can’t help but say it over and over, and wonder why you never thought it was strange that you should have that name, and that everyone has been calling you that name for your whole life."" Yankel. Yankee. Yankee. Nothing so strange for me."" I won’t eat them, at least not until it doesn’t seem strange to me.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him more pissed, because being less stupid than one's parents is repulsive, like taking a gulp from a glass of milk that you thought was orange juice.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

— Jonathan Safran Foer