Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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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!”
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I want an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time . . . The
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forever, I don’t know how much time passed, it didn’t matter, I’d lost all of my reasons to keep track.
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even though what I wanted to be was happy.
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It’s not that I wasn’t curious. I was incredibly curious. It’s that I was afraid of getting confused.
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“I found it and now I can’t look for it.”
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“Looking for it let me stay close to him for a little while longer.”
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Life itself depends on them. What’s real? What isn’t real? Maybe those aren’t the right questions to be asking. What does life depend on? I wish I had made things for life to depend on.
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“Life is scarier than death.”
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“I tried incredibly hard. I don’t know how I could have tried harder.”
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from “I love you” to “Once upon a time . . . ” We would have been safe.