“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & 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.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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