“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer , book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: 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

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