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?
Quotes from book
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.
“I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“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
“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
“She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close