Anna

“I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close