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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
“I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
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