“ No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“ It’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“ I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“ It’s always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
“ Even if I don’t like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don’t know what they are. So tell me which is worse.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
