“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 113
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“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 73
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I felt that night, on the stage, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? (p. 145)
“Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 43
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 130
“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208
“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“he came to think, It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Variant: She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close