“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
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“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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