And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.


Everything Is Illuminated (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) - ISBN: 9780547523781

Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end,...

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end,...

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end,...

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end,...