October 2008
11 posts
“In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
—Oscar Wilde
“
All that I see
the strange houses remind me of you
night reminds me of you
a small child’s crying reminds me
of you
the grave reminds me of you
the fish the flowers remind me of you
all the photographs all the colors
remind me of you
and I love them all for you
“You don’t have to look any farther than me.”
—JS Foer, Everything is Illuminated
(You have ghosts?)
(Of course I have ghosts.)
(What are your ghosts like?)
(They are on the inside of the lids of my eyes.)
(This is also where my ghosts reside.)
(You have ghosts?)
(Of course I have ghosts.)
(But you are a child.)
(I am not a child.)
(But you have not known love.)
(These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)
J. S. Foer, Everything is Illuminated
“That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
