“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.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― 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.”
― The Great Gatsby
― 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.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children and children are always smarter than their parents.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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