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


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

Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

They reciprocated the great and saving lie—that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things—willfully playing the parts ...

They reciprocated the great and saving lie—that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things—willfully playing the parts ...

They reciprocated the great and saving lie—that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things—willfully playing the parts ...

They reciprocated the great and saving lie—that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things—willfully playing the parts ...