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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.
“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.”
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“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”
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Oskar's grandmother
"My Feelings" (p. 314)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I said, I want to tell you something She said, you can tell me tomorrow I had never told her how much I loved her. She was my sister. We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. I thought about waking her. But it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. I love you. Grandma.
"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
“Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”
Variant: Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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“Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.”
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“There is nothing wrong with compromising, even if you are compromising almost everything.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 175
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“… only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….”
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