Quotes

=Quotes = "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living" — Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things." — Jonathan Safran Foer

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness." — Jonathan Safran Foer

"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 (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"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." — Jonathan Safran Foer

"When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible." — Jonathan Safran Foer

"... I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything" — Jonathan Safran Foer

"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live." — Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does." — Jonathan Safran Foer

"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. And the more you wage war." — Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"Songs are as sad as the listener." — Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice" — Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering." — Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach." — Jonathan Safran Foer