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"He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad. "
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated(Source: pavorst, via princessnymeria)
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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High ResolutionAhhhh, the movie treatment.
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"It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?"
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High Resolutionso I have a 10 dollar gift card to amazon, and I want to use it towards one of these books.
Problem is that I don’t know which one to buy. Suggestions?
I’ll always vote for Foer! what do you think, followers?
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High ResolutionHmmm… How do we feel about this, fellow JSF fans? Let me know.
Personally, I’m too frightened to watch the trailer at this point. The casting has already messed with my mental image.
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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GPOYF: My newly acquired tattoos from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Don’t mind me. Just going through page after page of your blog again.
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"I’m so far past predicting things at this point. My life has taken so many astonishing turns."
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"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close(Source: princessnymeria)
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(You have ghosts?)
(Of course I have ghosts.)
(What are your ghosts like?)
(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)
(This is also where my ghosts reside.)
(You have ghosts?)
(Of course I have ghosts.)
(But you are a child.)
(I am not a child.)
(But you have not known love.)
(These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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"The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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