

“Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals

“I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and sharing motifs (the way Tomas and Sabina exchanged the motif of the bowler hat), but if they meet when they are older, like Franz and Sabina, their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them.”
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“She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated

“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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