“We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“He looked all alone and so sad and so blue,
so I said, “Oh, dear Bear; there’s a home here for you.”
― A Big-Bear Birthday, Please!: A bilingual book for English and Spanish readers
so I said, “Oh, dear Bear; there’s a home here for you.”
― A Big-Bear Birthday, Please!: A bilingual book for English and Spanish readers
“Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
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