

“I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Why are you crying?"
"Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.”
― Crown of Midnight
"Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.”
― Crown of Midnight

“Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will be naught but a very ancient superstition of the past, how amazed men will be to think that their ancestors were able to endure that religion of torture and nihility!”
― Paris
― Paris

“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84

“You can't love anything more than something you miss.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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