“You either have the feeling
or you don’t.”
- Daniel Handler
2 months ago · 531 notes · Source · Reblogged from mscarliet
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
4 months ago · 14 notes
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
4 months ago · 15 notes
Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are.
— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
4 months ago · 5 notes
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
4 months ago · 17 notes
I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.
— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ― Jonathan Safran Foer
4 months ago · 6 notes
I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, I thought about my small victories and everything I’d seen destroyed. I’d swum through mink coats on my parents’ bed while they hosted downstairs, I’d lost the only person with whom I could have spent my only life, I’d left behind a thousand tonnes of marble from which I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself, I’d experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless in the universe. None of my pets knows their own name. What kind of person am I?
— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
4 months ago · 1 note
