Jonathan Safran Foer Citations
Jonathan Safran Foer: Citations en anglais
“She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“To feel alone is to be alone.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love”
Source: Eating Animals
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variante: There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me. (p. 181)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 181
Oskar during a visit to his therapist, Dr. Fein
"Happiness, Happiness" (p. 201)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Contexte: "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside 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 the 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."
“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
William Black talking with Oskar
"A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem" (p. 297)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Contexte: "It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.”
Source: Tree of Codes
“We spent our lives making livings.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
