Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Why not?” I asked, which I actually thought was a good question, because if you think about it, why not?

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”

every book, for me, is the balance of YES and NO,

we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged,

it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering,

“Nothing is beautiful and true.”

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

“Ghosts don’t care if you believe in them,”

“Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!”

“The ax won! It’s always that way!”

Weopons win not people

I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

trying to help each other help each other.

My life story was spaces.

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

We were not rich, but there was nothing we wanted.

I watched the world. And I was safe from the world.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live,