“I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“She is deranged, but so so playful.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
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