Quotes from book
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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“Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?”

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?

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“If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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“I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Jonathan Safran Foer photo
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“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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“… sometimes you have to put your fears in order…”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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“I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Jonathan Safran Foer photo
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“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 71

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Jonathan Safran Foer photo
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“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208

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Jonathan Safran Foer photo