Quotations from *Everything Is Illuminated*, 2 of 2
Jonathan Safran Foer
1977- American

Nothing felt like anything more than what it actually was. Everything was just a thing, mired completely in its thingness.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

There was no convincing reason to exist.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

But each was the closest thing to a deserving recipient of love that the other would find. So they gave each other all of it.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

They reciprocated the great and saving lie—that our love for things is greater than our love for our love for things—willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

If God exists, He is not to be believed in.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated