“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
“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
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“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
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