- "You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness." - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "I'm gonna bury my feelings deep inside me.” “What do you mean, bury your feelings?” “No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse." -_Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_
- "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living." - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it." - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "There are more places you haven’t heard of than you’ve heard of." - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you." - Everything is Illuminated
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