25 quotes
It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
Eating Animals (2009)
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else?
Eating Animals (2009)
"It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
By the standards of the international human rights community, the typical working conditions in America's slaughterhouses constitute human rights violations.
Eating Animals (2009)
Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." (p. 43)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
He had a wall of masks from every country he‘d been to, like Armenia and Chile and Ethiopia. It‘s not a horrible world, he told me, but it‘s filled with a lot of horrible people.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
"I used to tuck her … but now she tucked my feelings into the woven arteries of my veins."
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
There is nothing wrong with compromising, even if you are compromising almost everything. (p. 175)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. (p. 208)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time? (p. 279)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
I hope you never love anything as much as I love you. (p. 73)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. (p. 99)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything. (p. 216)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time. (p. 280)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. (p. 113)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)