Extremely Loud Incredibly Close Quotes

“she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:love

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:loveunderstanding

“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:life

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:lifelearningliving

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:liferelationshippeople

“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:lifedeath

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:happinesssadness

“what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:happinesssadnessthinking

“Nothing is beautiful and true.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:truthbeauty

“Ghosts don't care if you believe in them”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

topic:belief