Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

Quotes

• “I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you...”
• “In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the...”
• “I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's ...”
• “When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't wan...”
• “I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the imp...”
• “...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 wha...”
• “She died in my arms, saying, "I don't want to die."That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldi...”
• “So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can co...”
• “He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not ...”
• “Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is ther...”
• “A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things ...”
• “I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm alwa...”
• “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the futu...”
• “I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
• “There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
• “Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”
• “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
• “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
• “The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
• “Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”
• “There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
• “I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.”
• “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
• “...people with nothing to declare carry the most.”