Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

... we always love best the people who need us.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

Our instructors do not understand how it is. To be bound to someone in such a way. They are too old, too out of touch with their emotions. They no longer remember what it is to live and breathe within the world. They think it simple to pit any two people against each other. It is never simple. The other person becomes how you define your life, how you define yourself. They become as necessary as breathing. Then they expect the victor to continue on without that. It would be like pulling the Murray twins apart and expecting them to be the same. They would be whole but not complete.

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.

We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go.

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.