“And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back? ”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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