Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thin…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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