Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Dad

Quotes about: Dad

• 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

  Children, Dad, Father

• Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dad, Able, Your Dad

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dad, People, Tree

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Can’t you even tell me if I’m on the right track?" Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. "But if you don’t tell me anything, how can I ever be right?" He circled something in an article and said, "Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dad, Track, Would Be

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had cells!" "His memory is there." "His memory is here," I said, pointing at my head. "Dad had a spirit," she said, like she was rewinding a bit in our conversation. I told her, "He had cells, and now they're on rooftops, and in the river, and in the lungs of millions of people around New York, who breathe him every time they speak!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mom, New York, Dad

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Dad, Eight

  "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close". www.imdb.com. 2011.

• As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Song, Dad

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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