Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 153
Quotes from book
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 113
“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 73
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)
“Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“… an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.”
Variant: I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 43
“We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.”
Variant: We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“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
