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‎She leaned back and looked at him with something like hurt, and then he almost but didn’t say the two sentences he’d been meaning to say for years: ‘Part of me is made of glass,’ and also, ‘I love you.’

NICOLE KRAUSS, from “THE HISTORY OF LOVE”

11 months ago -

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You write to someone you can’t be with.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

11 months ago -

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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

11 months ago -

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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of… why can’t people say what they meant at the time?

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

11 months ago -

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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

1 year ago -

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Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

1 year ago -

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Even though it was an incredibly sad day, she looked so, so beautiful. I kept trying to figure out a way to tell her that, but all of the ways I thought of were weird and wrong.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

1 year ago -

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He shrugged his shoulders like he had no idea what I was talking about. I loved that.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

1 year ago -

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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

1 year ago -

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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, from “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE”

1 year ago -

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