More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped."
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Read More
"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Read More
"I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Read More
"...people with nothing to declare carry the most."
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"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true."
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