I’m sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
—  Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

2 months ago · 13 notes

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

“I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

4 months ago · 3 notes

growing-orbits:

“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it’s in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.”  

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Well, the 10th Anniversary 9/11 documentary ‘season’ has begun… I have been dreading it. I cannot stand our fascination with seeing those towers falling over and over again on loop for ten years… an event which should have brought out the best in our humanity has instead, in its legacy of war and media obsession, only brought out the worst.

I do not want to see those towers falling forever.

by memoriesofmymelancholy

8 months ago · 26 notes · Source · Reblogged from growing-orbits