Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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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!"

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!”

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

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

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."

That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

We spent our lives making livings.