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Variante: We stopped laughing, I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me”

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“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 71

“With writing, we have second chances.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer

“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 279

“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Kontext: "You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.)