“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
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