“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“You can't love anything more than something you miss.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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