We spent so much time together. I don’t think there’s anyone that I spent more time with, at least not since Dad died, unless you count Buckminster. But there were a lot of people I knew better. For example, I didn’t know anything about what it was like when she was a kid, or how she met Grandpa, or what their marriage was like, or why he left. If I had to write her life story, all I could say is that her husband could talk to animals, and that I should never love anything as much as she loved me. So here’s my question: What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

~   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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He wrote about how happy he was, and how sad he was, and all of the things he wanted to do but never did, and all of the things he did but didn’t want to do.

~   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

~   Jonathan Safran Foer (via saddest-summer)
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

~   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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I wondered will there come a time when we won’t be joking? And what would that look like? And how would that feel?

~   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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01.08.12 /20:51

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!

~   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via godspeedtoyou)
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We stood there. He was in the room. I was in the hall. The door was open, but it felt like there was an invisible door between us, because I didn’t know what to say to him, and he didn’t know what to write to me.

~   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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12.18.11 /12:55/♥ 10

I didn’t want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.

~   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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12.14.11 /20:30

Maybe we’re just missing things we’ve lost, or hoping for what we want to come.

~   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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