Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” Quotes (131 Quotes)
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- Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- I've thought myself out of happinessone one million times, but never once into it.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- You have to do something bad to do something good.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
(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")
- I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
- Just because you're an atheist doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
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