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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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


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Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“Why I'm Not Where You Are”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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“Every moment before this one depends on this one.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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“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

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Jonathan Safran Foer photo
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“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.”

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)

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“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 216

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