Jonathan Safran FoerI realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything... All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
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When you are really sad, you get very confused. Your mind is not working normally and you think you cannot trust your emotions. That’s why this quote makes a lot of sense. When the mother of a friend really loves her child, she can see everything in him.
It is hard to say that when a child is really in love with a girl. The mother knows that he does not need anything from her or anyone else in order to be happy.
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