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“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 74
“I did not need to know if he could love me.
I needed to know if he could need me.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 309
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
Variant: The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. (p. 17)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 216
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 99
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 153
Source: Everything Is Illuminated