“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 153
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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)
“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
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Oskar's grandmother to his grandfather after she told him of her pregnancy.
"My Feelings" (p. 180)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
“I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close