Quotes from book
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.

“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

“She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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

“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

“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)

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 216